NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1230MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q
+413%
11.34 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jan 2023
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
735 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1230 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
36
1536
Shading Units
4608
128
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
36
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
11.34 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.34 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
177.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
AD106
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
GN21-X6
Kepler
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
22.9 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
188 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
