AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition 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, 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 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 771 MHz
  • 2.8x more boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 797 MHz
  • 1035.3x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 102.0 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
  • 8.1x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 122 Watt
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 8 November 2013
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 771 MHz
Boost clock speed 2200 MHz vs 797 MHz
Texture fill rate 105.6 GTexel/s vs 102.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 122 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

  • 2x more pipelines: 1536 vs 768
Pipelines 1536 vs 768

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Name AMD Radeon 680M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 378
Geekbench - OpenCL 26608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 33.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1002.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 54.752
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 126.579
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6703
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 108.2
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 119.7

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 680M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Kepler
Code name Rembrandt GK104
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 8 November 2013
Place in performance rating 1232 879
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2200 MHz 797 MHz
Compute units 12
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 771 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 28 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 1536
Pixel fill rate 70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 105.6 GTexel/s 102.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 122 Watt
Transistor count 13100 million 3,540 million
Floating-point performance 2,448 gflops

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 MXM-B (3.0)

API support

DirectX 12.2 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5