NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 and AMD Radeon HD 7550M 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
- Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
- 2.2x more core clock speed: 1006 MHz vs 450 MHz
- Around 92% higher boost clock speed: 1058 MHz vs 550 MHz
- 10.7x more texture fill rate: 128.8 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s
- 3.8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 400
- 6.4x better floating-point performance: 3,090.4 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
- 3.3x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1800 MHz
- 12x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5566 vs 465
- Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 530 vs 403
- 3.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18397 vs 5371
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 22 March 2012 vs 7 January 2012 |
Core clock speed | 1006 MHz vs 450 MHz |
Boost clock speed | 1058 MHz vs 550 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 128.8 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 1536 vs 400 |
Floating-point performance | 3,090.4 gflops vs 480.0 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 40 nm |
Memory clock speed | 6008 MHz vs 1800 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 5566 vs 465 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 530 vs 403 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 18397 vs 5371 |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M
- 13.9x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 195 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 14 Watt vs 195 Watt |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7550M
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Geekbench - OpenCL |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 | AMD Radeon HD 7550M |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 5566 | 465 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 530 | 403 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 18397 | 5371 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 46.086 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 989.685 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 4.645 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 36.463 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 99.577 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 7222 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3666 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3306 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 7222 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3666 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3306 | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 2004 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 | AMD Radeon HD 7550M | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Kepler | TeraScale 2 |
Code name | GK104 | Thames |
Launch date | 22 March 2012 | 7 January 2012 |
Launch price (MSRP) | $499 | |
Place in performance rating | 560 | 561 |
Price now | $579.99 | |
Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Value for money (0-100) | 12.83 | |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1058 MHz | 550 MHz |
Core clock speed | 1006 MHz | 450 MHz |
CUDA cores | 1536 | |
Floating-point performance | 3,090.4 gflops | 480.0 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 40 nm |
Pipelines | 1536 | 400 |
Texture fill rate | 128.8 billion / sec | 12 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 195 Watt | 14 Watt |
Transistor count | 3,540 million | 716 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Audio input for HDMI | Internal | |
Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI... | No outputs |
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HDCP | ||
HDMI | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Multi monitor support | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Length | 10.0" (25.4 cm) | |
SLI options | 3-way | |
Supplementary power connectors | Two 6-pin | |
Laptop size | medium sized | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
OpenGL | 4.2 | 4.4 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2048 MB | 2 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 192.2 GB / s | 28.8 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 256-bit GDDR5 | 64 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 6008 MHz | 1800 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 / DDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | 0 |
Technologies |
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3D Vision | ||
Adaptive VSync | ||
CUDA | ||
FXAA | ||
GPU Boost | ||
SLI | ||
TXAA |