NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1350MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
RTX A5000 Max Q
+651%
16.59 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 600M
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
720 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1350 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
48
1536
Shading Units
6144
128
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
129.6 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
259.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.59 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.59 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
259.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA104
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
392 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
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
