NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 6500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M 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 144.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2400MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 122W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

2.209 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M +122%

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Card

Oct 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 600M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1536

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

92.03 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

2.209 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

92.03 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Navi 24

N13E-GTX2-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XM

Kepler

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

122W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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