NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports. 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

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • 83.8x more texture fill rate: 92.2 billion / sec vs 1.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 140 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 64 MB
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 517.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4138 vs 8
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 534 vs 261
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 October 2012 vs 28 October 2003
Core clock speed 720 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate 92.2 billion / sec vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4138 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark 534 vs 261

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCI

  • 9.4x lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 122 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 13 Watt vs 122 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCI

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4138
8
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
534
261
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark 4138 8
PassMark - G2D Mark 534 261
Geekbench - OpenCL 12216
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 25.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 734.936
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.31
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 35.434
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 56.706
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3336
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCI

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Rankine
Launch date 23 October 2012 28 October 2003
Place in performance rating 650 653
Type Laptop Workstation
Code name NV34 B1

Technical info

Core clock speed 720 MHz 275 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 140 nm
Pipelines 1536
Texture fill rate 92.2 billion / sec 1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt 13 Watt
Transistor count 3540 Million 45 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Interface PCI
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0a
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 160 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DMS-59