NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2023
Apr 2013
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
GeForce 600
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
735 MHz
1006 MHz
Boost Clock
1230 MHz
1058 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
192.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
36
-
Shading Units
4608
1536
TMUs
144
128
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
36
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
32 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
177.1 GTexel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
11.34 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
11.34 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
177.1 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD106
GK104
GPU Variant
GN21-X6
GK104-400-A2
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
22.9 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
188 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
35W
195W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.9
3.0
Shader Model
6.8
5.1