AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Video outputs and ports, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon 680M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 18 year(s) 7 month(s) later
5x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 400 MHz
66000x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 130 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608
PassMark - G3D Mark		40
PassMark - G2D Mark		134

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Rankine
Code name	Rembrandt	NV35
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1232	1229
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	130 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	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	135 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.2	9.0a
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR