NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +111%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

2.209 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 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

1064 MHz

Base Clock

-

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.01 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.03 GTexel/s

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4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.209 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

92.03 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

122W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK104

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX2-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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