Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2014 Oct 2012
Generation GeForce 800M GeForce 600M
Type Mobile Mobile
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 941 MHz
Boost Clock 967 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 192bit 256bit
Bandwidth 120.0GB/s 160.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1344 1536
TMUs 112 128
ROPs 24 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per SMX) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 384 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.08 GPixel/s 23.01 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 108.3 GTexel/s 92.03 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.599 TFLOPS 2.209 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 108.3 GFLOPS 92.03 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GK104 GK104
GPU Variant N15E-GT-A2 N13E-GTX2-A2
Architecture Kepler Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3.54 billion 3.54 billion
Die Size 294 mm² 294 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 122W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Power Connectors None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.1 1.1
CUDA 3.0 3.0
Shader Model 5.1 5.1