AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce 945M 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 945M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 94% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1029 MHz
2x more boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1085 MHz
3542.4x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 29.81 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 28 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
3.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26375 vs 8099

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 27 October 2015
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1029 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1085 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 29.81 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26375 vs 8099

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26375

8099

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce 945M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2325
Geekbench - OpenCL	26375	8099
PassMark - G3D Mark		2109
PassMark - G2D Mark		240
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		28.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		380.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		31.027
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		107.094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2961
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2961
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3343

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce 945M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Maxwell
Code name	Rembrandt	GM107
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	27 October 2015
Place in performance rating	959	961
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1085 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	512
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	29.81 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	1,870 million
Floating-point performance		953.9 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
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		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		16.02 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus