NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports. 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 24% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 580 MHz
9.9x more texture fill rate: 92.2 billion / sec vs 9.28 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1500 MHz
11.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4138 vs 366
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 534 vs 248

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 October 2012 vs 4 June 2008
Core clock speed	720 MHz vs 580 MHz
Texture fill rate	92.2 billion / sec vs 9.28 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4138 vs 366
PassMark - G2D Mark	534 vs 248

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

3.5x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 122 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 122 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4138

366

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

534

248

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
PassMark - G3D Mark	4138	366
PassMark - G2D Mark	534	248
Geekbench - OpenCL	12232
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	25.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	734.936
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.31
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.434
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	56.706
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3336
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3336

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Launch date	23 October 2012	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	650	651
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Code name		M88
Technical info
Core clock speed	720 MHz	580 MHz
CUDA cores	1536
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1536	320
Texture fill rate	92.2 billion / sec	9.28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	3540 Million	666 million
Floating-point performance		371.2 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size	large	large
SLI options	2-way
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	160 GB / s	48.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
HDCP
HDMI