NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 1006 MHz
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 1058 MHz
Around 8% higher pipelines: 1664 vs 1536
Around 27% better floating-point performance: 3,920 gflops vs 3,090.4 gflops
Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 148 Watt vs 195 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2048 MB

Launch date	1 June 2016 vs 22 March 2012
Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 1006 MHz
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz vs 1058 MHz
Pipelines	1664 vs 1536
Floating-point performance	3,920 gflops vs 3,090.4 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	148 Watt vs 195 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2048 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 128.8 billion / sec vs 122.5 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	128.8 billion / sec vs 122.5 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 6000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
PassMark - G3D Mark		5590
PassMark - G2D Mark		531
Geekbench - OpenCL		18376
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		46.086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		989.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		36.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		99.577
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3306
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2004

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Kepler
Code name	GM204	GK104
Launch date	1 June 2016	22 March 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	544
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Price now		$579.99
Value for money (0-100)		12.83
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz	1058 MHz
Core clock speed	1050 MHz	1006 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,920 gflops	3,090.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1664	1536
Texture fill rate	122.5 GTexel / s	128.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	148 Watt	195 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	3,540 million
CUDA cores		1536
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	Two 6-pin
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		10.0" (25.4 cm)
SLI options		3-way
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2048 MB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	6008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA