GeForce GTX 680M vs GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680M |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 680M | | GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK104 (N13E-GTX-A2) | vs | GK104 (N13E-GTX2-A2) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 294 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 3,540 million |
| Shaders | 1344 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 7 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 719 MHz | vs | 719 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 112 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 680M | | GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 680M | | GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 122 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Jun 2012 | vs | 23 Oct 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)