AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) 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 GTX 1050 (Desktop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 55% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Around 58% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1392 MHz
1814.4x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 58.2 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
3.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 378 vs 122
Around 52% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26608 vs 17466

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 25 October 2016
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1392 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 58.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378 vs 122
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608 vs 17466

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

378

122

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26608

17466

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378	122
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608	17466
PassMark - G3D Mark		5029
PassMark - G2D Mark		457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		67.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		799.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		30.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		223.683
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7043
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7043
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Pascal
Code name	Rembrandt	GP107
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	25 October 2016
Place in performance rating	1232	586
Launch price (MSRP)		$109
Price now		$124.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		56.95
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1392 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1290 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	640
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	58.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	3,300 million
CUDA cores		640
Floating-point performance		1,862 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		97 °C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Height		4.38" (11.1 cm)
Length		5.7" (14.5 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		None
Width		2-slot
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Multi monitor support
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		7008 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GameStream
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
VR Ready