AMD Radeon 680M vs AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Video outputs and ports. 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).

AMD Radeon 680M

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
6.7x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 69% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
3.3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2295 vs 705
3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26603 vs 8763

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 13 February 2018
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2295 vs 705
Geekbench - OpenCL	26603 vs 8763

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

2295

705

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26603

8763

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2295	705
Geekbench - OpenCL	26603	8763
PassMark - G3D Mark		1581
PassMark - G2D Mark		410
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		25.891
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		365.4
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		37.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		132.07
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		6729
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		6729

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Rembrandt	Owl
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	13 February 2018
Place in performance rating	955	957
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1300 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
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	4,940 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	IGP
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs