AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2012
Oct 2012
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 600M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
160.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1536
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
23.01 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
New Zealand
GK104
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
294 mm²
GPU Variant
-
N13E-GTX2-A2

Board Design

TDP
500W
122W
Suggested PSU
900 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
-

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
CUDA
-
3.0