AMD Radeon R9 M485X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M485X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X 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 R9 M485X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (122W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M485X +34%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

2.209 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X

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GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2012

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.01 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.03 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.209 TFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

92.03 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

122W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GK104

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX2-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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