NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R5 M255

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 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 32.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock940MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition +206%

2.209 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R5 M255

Graphics Card

Oct 2012

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 600M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

940 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

1536

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.520 GPixel/s

92.03 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

721.9 GFLOPS

2.209 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

721.9 GFLOPS

92.03 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

122W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Topaz

N13E-GTX2-A2

GPU Variant

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2.170

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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