AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 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 860M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 797 MHz
2.4x more boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 915 MHz
2433.2x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 43.4 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 28 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
2.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26608 vs 10427

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 10 March 2014
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 797 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 915 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 43.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608 vs 10427

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1151 vs 378

Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1151 vs 378

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

378

1151

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26608

10427

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378	1151
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608	10427
PassMark - G3D Mark		3072
PassMark - G2D Mark		226
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		22.828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		210.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.662
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		162.83
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3340

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Kepler
Code name	Rembrandt	GK104
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	10 March 2014
Place in performance rating	1232	853
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	915 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	797 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	640
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	43.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	3,540 million
CUDA cores		1152 or 640
Floating-point performance		1,389 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support		Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support		Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support		Up to 2048x1536
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		80.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Standard memory configuration		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA