NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GK104 GK104
GPU variant N13E-GTX-A2 N15P-GX-A1
Architecture Kepler Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 3,540 million 3,540 million
Die size 294 mm² 294 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 4th, 2012 Mar 10th, 2014
Generation GeForce 600M GeForce 800M
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 1 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 500M GeForce 700M
Successor GeForce 700M GeForce 900M

Clocks

Base clock 719 MHz 797 MHz
Boost clock 758 MHz 915 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 3.6 Gbps effective 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 115.2 GB/s 80.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1344 1152
TMUs 112 96
ROPs 32 16
SMX count 7 6
Cache L1 16 KB (per SMX) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 512 KB 256 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 21.22 GPixel/s 21.96 GPixel/s
Texture rate 84.90 GTexel/s 87.84 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.038 TFLOPS 2.108 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 84.90 GFLOPS (1:24) 87.84 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module IGP
TDP 100 W 75 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Power connectors None None
Board number P2051B P2053 SKU 4

API Support & 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

Other Features

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