AMD Radeon 680M vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and AMD Radeon HD 7950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Video outputs and ports, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

AMD Radeon 680M

AMD Radeon HD 7950

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 76% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1250 MHz
1178.6x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
20x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 300 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 31 January 2012
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

2.3x more pipelines: 1792 vs 768
5.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1914 vs 378
3.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82144 vs 26608

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1792 vs 768
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1914 vs 378
Geekbench - OpenCL	82144 vs 26608

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

378

1914

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26608

82144

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	AMD Radeon HD 7950
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378	1914
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608	82144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		63.74
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1177.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		69.23
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		343.81
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	AMD Radeon HD 7950
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Rembrandt	Tahiti
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	31 January 2012
Place in performance rating	1232	503
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1250 MHz
Compute units	12	28
Core clock speed	2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.379 TFLOPS
Pipelines	768	1792
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2,867 gflops
Stream Processors		1792
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.2	11
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		3 GB
Memory bandwidth		240 GB/s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory clock speed		1250 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
PowerTune
ZeroCore