NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M and ATI Radeon X850 PRO 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 X850 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 42% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 507 MHz
13.3x more texture fill rate: 80.6 billion / sec vs 6.08 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
Around 73% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1040 MHz
44.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3239 vs 73
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 343 vs 157

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 June 2012 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed	720 MHz vs 507 MHz
Texture fill rate	80.6 billion / sec vs 6.08 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1040 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3239 vs 73
PassMark - G2D Mark	343 vs 157

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3239

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

343

157

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M	ATI Radeon X850 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	3239	73
PassMark - G2D Mark	343	157
Geekbench - OpenCL	9406
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 X850 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	R400
Code name	GK104	R480
Launch date	4 June 2012	1 December 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$310.50	$279
Place in performance rating	1061	1064
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	507 MHz
CUDA cores	1344
Floating-point performance	2,038 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	1344
Texture fill rate	80.6 billion / sec	6.08 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0b
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	115.2 GB / s	33.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1040 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
SLI
TXAA