AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 - Video Composition (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon 680M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 70% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1176 MHz
Around 83% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1201 MHz
1373.9x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 76.86 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 26 November 2015
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1176 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1201 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 76.86 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Around 33% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 768

Pipelines	1024 vs 768

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2328
Geekbench - OpenCL	26203
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.659

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Rembrandt	GM206
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	26 November 2015
Place in performance rating	960	961
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1201 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1176 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	1024
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	76.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	2,940 million
Floating-point performance		2,460 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
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		No outputs
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		7012 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5