NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 122W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition +46%

2.209 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

640

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.01 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.03 GTexel/s

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.209 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

92.03 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

122W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GK104

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX2-A2

Maxwell

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.0

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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