NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe 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 48.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1219MHz

Lower TDP (35W vs 122W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition +77%

2.209 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

VS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2012

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 600M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

1536

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

92.03 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

2.209 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

92.03 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

122W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Lexa

N13E-GTX2-A2

GPU Variant

E9170

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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