AMD Radeon 680M vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and AMD Radeon RX 550 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 AMD Radeon 680M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 82% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • Around 86% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1183 MHz
  • 2789.2x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 768 vs 512
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 378 vs 127
  • 2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26608 vs 11610
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed 2200 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Texture fill rate 105.6 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 378 vs 127
Geekbench - OpenCL 26608 vs 11610

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 550

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
378
127
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
26608
11610
Name AMD Radeon 680M AMD Radeon RX 550
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 378 127
Geekbench - OpenCL 26608 11610
PassMark - G3D Mark 2690
PassMark - G2D Mark 476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 33.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1037.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 52.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 140.911
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2158

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 680M AMD Radeon RX 550

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Rembrandt Lexa
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 1232 876
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $79
Price now $75
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 59.51

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2200 MHz 1183 MHz
Compute units 12
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 14 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 768 512
Pixel fill rate 70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 105.6 GTexel/s 37.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 13100 million 2,200 million
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
Length 145 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.2 12
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)