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).

 

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
  • 4.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26437 vs 6059
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 26437 vs 6059

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
26437
6059
Name AMD Radeon 680M NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2322
Geekbench - OpenCL 26437 6059
PassMark - G2D Mark 227
PassMark - G3D Mark 1873
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 955 958
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