AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1301MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
+322%
9.326 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2018
Release Date
Oct 2012
Mobility Radeon
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1138 MHz
Base Clock
-
1301 MHz
Boost Clock
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
256bit
409.6GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
3584
Shading Units
1536
224
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
83.26 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
291.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
18.65 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.326 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
582.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
122W
-
-
-
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
GK104
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-A2
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Kepler
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
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
