AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X 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
AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1211MHz
Lower TDP (50W vs 122W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 540X Mobile
1.24 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+78%
2.209 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2018
Release Date
Oct 2012
Mobility Radeon
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1124 MHz
Base Clock
-
1211 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
512
Shading Units
1536
32
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
19.38 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
38.75 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
1240 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1240 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
77.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
122W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Polaris 23
GPU Name
GK104
Polaris 23 MXL
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-A2
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Kepler
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
