NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 122W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition +677%

2.209 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 550M

Graphics Card

Oct 2012

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 600M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

1536

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.960 GPixel/s

92.03 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.84 GTexel/s

-

2.209 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

284.2 GFLOPS

92.03 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

23.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

122W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GF108

N13E-GTX2-A2

GPU Variant

N12P-GT1-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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