Apple M1 8-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 8-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Apple M1 8-core

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 27% higher core clock speed: 1278 MHz vs 1006 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
19.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 195 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	10 Nov 2020 vs 3 April 2013
Core clock speed	1278 MHz vs 1006 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 195 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

192x more pipelines: 1536 vs 8

Pipelines	1536 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Name	Apple M1 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	18993
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10433
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10433
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3364
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3364

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Essentials
Launch date	10 Nov 2020	3 April 2013
Place in performance rating	420	not rated
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		Kepler
Code name		GK104
Launch price (MSRP)		$599
Technical info
Core clock speed	1278 MHz	1006 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	650 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	5200 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.617 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	1536
Render output units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	195 Watt
Boost clock speed		1058 MHz
Floating-point performance		3,250 gflops
Texture fill rate		135.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count		3,540 million
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	66.67 GB/s	192.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		6008 MHz
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		254 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6