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).

ATI Radeon HD 5490

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

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		4142
PassMark - G2D Mark		589
Geekbench - OpenCL		12174
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	614
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