NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 510

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and NVIDIA NVS 510 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

  • 7.2x more texture fill rate: 92.03 GTexel / s vs 12.75 GTexel / s
  • 8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 192
  • 7.2x better floating-point performance: 2,209 gflops vs 306.0 gflops
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Texture fill rate 92.03 GTexel / s vs 12.75 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 192
Floating-point performance 2,209 gflops vs 306.0 gflops
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1782 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 510

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 719 MHz
  • 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 122 Watt
Core clock speed 797 MHz vs 719 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 122 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA NVS 510

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition NVIDIA NVS 510
PassMark - G3D Mark 692
PassMark - G2D Mark 288
Geekbench - OpenCL 1706
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 6.809
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 111.269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.399
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 7.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 9.522
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1211
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 976
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1720
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1211
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 976
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1720

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition NVIDIA NVS 510

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Kepler
Code name GK104 GK107
Launch date 23 October 2012 23 October 2012
Place in performance rating not rated 1430
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $449

Technical info

Core clock speed 719 MHz 797 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,209 gflops 306.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1536 192
Texture fill rate 92.03 GTexel / s 12.75 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 1,270 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 160 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s 28.51 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 1782 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3