NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M and ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
13.9x more texture fill rate: 80.6 billion / sec vs 5.8 GTexel / s
11.2x more pipelines: 1344 vs 120
11.7x better floating-point performance: 2,038 gflops vs 174 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
21.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3239 vs 150
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 343 vs 155

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 June 2012 vs 23 January 2008
Texture fill rate	80.6 billion / sec vs 5.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1344 vs 120
Floating-point performance	2,038 gflops vs 174 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3239 vs 150
PassMark - G2D Mark	343 vs 155

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Around 1% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 720 MHz
Around 54% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 100 Watt

Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 720 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3239

150

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

343

155

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M	ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	3239	150
PassMark - G2D Mark	343	155
Geekbench - OpenCL	9345
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3111
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1263
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2409
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3111
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M	ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK104	RV635
Launch date	4 June 2012	23 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$310.50
Place in performance rating	1060	1063
Price now	$499.99
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	8.46
Technical info
Boost clock speed	758 MHz
Core clock speed	720 MHz	725 MHz
CUDA cores	1344
Floating-point performance	2,038 gflops	174 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1344	120
Texture fill rate	80.6 billion / sec	5.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	378 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	115.2 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
SLI
TXAA