AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1770 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 12 nm
  • 8x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 120 Watt
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 22 February 2019
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed 2200 MHz vs 1770 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

  • 2.8x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1061 vs 378
  • 2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 61100 vs 26608
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1061 vs 378
Geekbench - OpenCL 61100 vs 26608

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
378
1061
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
26608
61100
Name AMD Radeon 680M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 378 1061
Geekbench - OpenCL 26608 61100
PassMark - G3D Mark 12900
PassMark - G2D Mark 807
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 208.608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2573.643
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 16.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 145.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 926.614
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 680M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
Code name Rembrandt TU116
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 22 February 2019
Place in performance rating 1232 221
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Price now $279.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 67.32

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2200 MHz 1770 MHz
Compute units 12
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 12 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
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 13100 million 6,600 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.2 12.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 1
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Memory

Memory clock speed 12000 MHz