NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs AMD Radeon HD 6650M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M and AMD Radeon HD 6650M 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 680M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 5.6x more texture fill rate: 80.6 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • 2.8x more pipelines: 1344 vs 480
  • 3.5x better floating-point performance: 2,038 gflops vs 576.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 4.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3252 vs 750
  • Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 345 vs 222
  • Around 63% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9400 vs 5780
  • Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2409 vs 1866
  • Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2409 vs 1866
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 June 2012 vs 4 January 2011
Core clock speed 720 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 80.6 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 480
Floating-point performance 2,038 gflops vs 576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3252 vs 750
PassMark - G2D Mark 345 vs 222
Geekbench - OpenCL 9400 vs 5780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2409 vs 1866
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2409 vs 1866

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650M

  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3334 vs 3111
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3334 vs 3111
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3334 vs 3111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3334 vs 3111

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6650M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3252
750
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
345
222
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9400
5780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2409
1866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3111
3334
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2409
1866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3111
3334
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M AMD Radeon HD 6650M
PassMark - G3D Mark 3252 750
PassMark - G2D Mark 345 222
Geekbench - OpenCL 9400 5780
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 28.081
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 879.575
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.823
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 40.155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 99.75
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1263
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2409 1866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3111 3334
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1263
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2409 1866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3111 3334
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M AMD Radeon HD 6650M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale 2
Code name GK104 Whistler
Launch date 4 June 2012 4 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $310.50
Place in performance rating 1047 1050
Price now $499.99
Type Laptop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 8.46

Technical info

Boost clock speed 758 MHz
Core clock speed 720 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 1344
Floating-point performance 2,038 gflops 576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1344 480
Texture fill rate 80.6 billion / sec 14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 716 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 115.2 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
SLI
TXAA