AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon 680M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Around 26% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1740 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
6x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 90 Watt

Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 90 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 125.3 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 768
Around 87% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 49885 vs 26608

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 4 Jan 2022
Texture fill rate	125.3 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2304 vs 768
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	49885 vs 26608

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26608

49885

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608	49885
PassMark - G2D Mark		942
PassMark - G3D Mark		12873

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Code name	Rembrandt	GA107
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	2022
Place in performance rating	1232	88
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1740 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)	125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)	8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.379 TFLOPS	8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines	768	2304
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s	55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	125.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	90 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length		242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)		250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
Width		112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12.2	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width		128 bit
Memory clock speed		1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type		GDDR6