AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 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, 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 1060 3 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 33% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1506 MHz
Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1708 MHz
858.5x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 123.0 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 16 nm
8x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 120 Watt
2.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 378 vs 156

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 18 August 2016
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1506 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1708 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 123.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 120 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378 vs 156

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Around 50% higher pipelines: 1152 vs 768
Around 22% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 32384 vs 26608

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1152 vs 768
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	32384 vs 26608

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

378

156

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26608

32384

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378	156
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608	32384
PassMark - G3D Mark		9796
PassMark - G2D Mark		772
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		115.073
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1325.07
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		8.057
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		31.946
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		425.709
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3338
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3338

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Pascal
Code name	Rembrandt	GP106
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	18 August 2016
Place in performance rating	1232	388
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1708 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	16 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	1152
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	123.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	4,400 million
Floating-point performance		3,935 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		250 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
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		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		3 GB
Memory bandwidth		192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		192 Bit
Memory clock speed		8008 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5