AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon 680M

NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 92% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1041 MHz
6338.5x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 16.66 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 25 Watt
4.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26203 vs 6338

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 11 January 2017
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1041 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 16.66 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26203 vs 6338

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26203

6338

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2328
Geekbench - OpenCL	26203	6338
PassMark - G2D Mark		227
PassMark - G3D Mark		1870
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3079
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3011
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3011

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Maxwell
Code name	Rembrandt	GM108
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	11 January 2017
Place in performance rating	960	951
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1041 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	384
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	16.66 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million
Floating-point performance		799.5 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-A (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		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		40.1 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		5012 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5