AMD Radeon 680M vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon 680M

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
6.7x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 300 MHz
2x more boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1100 MHz
3000x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 35.2 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
3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26608 vs 8941

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 24 November 2017
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 35.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608 vs 8941

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 15 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 15 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26608

8941

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608	8941
PassMark - G2D Mark		399
PassMark - G3D Mark		1527
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3157
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Rembrandt	Vega
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	24 November 2017
Place in performance rating	1232	665
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1100 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	300 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	35.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	4,500 million
Floating-point performance		1,126 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.2
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR4