AMD Radeon R5 A230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R5 A230 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 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

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A230

0.547 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition +303%

2.209 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230

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GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Oct 2012

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

855 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1536

20

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.01 GPixel/s

17.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.03 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

547.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.209 TFLOPS

34.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

92.03 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

GK104

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX2-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

122W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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