NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 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 48.06GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
Lower TDP (10W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+181%
2.209 TFLOPS
GeForce MX230
0.784 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1519 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1536
Shading Units
256
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.50 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.50 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.25 GFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.9 GFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
10W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GP108
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
N17S-G0-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
