NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 122W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition +59%

2.209 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 860M

Graphics Card

Oct 2012

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 600M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

92.03 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

2.209 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

92.03 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

122W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GM107

N13E-GTX2-A2

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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