AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce 840M 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).

AMD Radeon 680M

NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 94% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1029 MHz
Around 96% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1124 MHz
5873.2x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 17.98 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
4.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26613 vs 5745

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 12 March 2014
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1029 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1124 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 17.98 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26613 vs 5745

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Around 32% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 503 vs 381

Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	503 vs 381

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 840M

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

381

503

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26613

5745

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce 840M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	381	503
Geekbench - OpenCL	26613	5745
PassMark - G3D Mark		1096
PassMark - G2D Mark		151
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		22.848
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		162.594
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		21.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		95.545
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3191

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce 840M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Maxwell
Code name	Rembrandt	GM108
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	12 March 2014
Place in performance rating	1245	1248
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1124 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1029 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	384
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	17.98 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million
Floating-point performance		863.2 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		16.02 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		2002 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus