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: 18412 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 18412 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
GPU 1
GPU 2
5566
465
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
530
403
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
18412
5371
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon HD 7550M
PassMark - G3D Mark 5566 465
PassMark - G2D Mark 530 403
Geekbench - OpenCL 18412 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

Essentials

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

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

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
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.2 4.4

Memory

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

3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA