ATI Radeon HD 5490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5490 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5490

  • 6.4x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 122 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 122 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 17.7x more texture fill rate: 92.2 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
  • 19.2x more pipelines: 1536 vs 80
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 720 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 92.2 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5490
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

Name ATI Radeon HD 5490 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
PassMark - G3D Mark 4138
PassMark - G2D Mark 534
Geekbench - OpenCL 12216
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 25.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 734.936
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.31
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 35.434
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 56.706
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3336
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5490 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Kepler
Code name Cedar
Launch date 28 October 2012 23 October 2012
Place in performance rating not rated 650
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 720 MHz
Floating-point performance 104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 80 1536
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s 92.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 122 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 3540 Million
CUDA cores 1536

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.4 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 8 GB / s 160 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 2500 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA

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