AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 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 1660 Ti Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 75% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Around 65% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1335 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 12 nm
4x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 60 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 23 April 2019
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 60 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

Around 21% higher texture fill rate: 128.2 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
2x more pipelines: 1536 vs 768
13x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4903 vs 378
Around 96% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 52263 vs 26608

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	128.2 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	1536 vs 768
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4903 vs 378
Geekbench - OpenCL	52263 vs 26608

Compare benchmarks

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

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

378

4903

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26608

52263

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378	4903
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608	52263
PassMark - G3D Mark		8609
PassMark - G2D Mark		360
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		195.93
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1919.95
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.6
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		94.964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		492.867
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		12301
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		12301
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Turing
Code name	Rembrandt	TU116
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	23 April 2019
Place in performance rating	1232	315
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1335 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1140 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)	128.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)	8.202 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.379 TFLOPS	4.101 TFLOPS
Pipelines	768	1536
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s	64.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	128.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	6600 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.1
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.4
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		6 GB
Memory bandwidth		288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width		192 bit
Memory clock speed		1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Memory type		GDDR6