NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 675 MHz
  • 4.3x more texture fill rate: 92.2 billion / sec vs 21.6 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 56% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 7.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3593 vs 463
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 440 vs 375
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3336 vs 2907
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3336 vs 2907
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 October 2012 vs 9 January 2009
Core clock speed 720 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate 92.2 billion / sec vs 21.6 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 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3593 vs 463
PassMark - G2D Mark 440 vs 375
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3336 vs 2907
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336 vs 2907

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

  • 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 4670

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3593
463
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
440
375
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3336
2907
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3336
2907
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670
PassMark - G3D Mark 3593 463
PassMark - G2D Mark 440 375
Geekbench - OpenCL 12245
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 2907
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336 2907

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Launch date 23 October 2012 9 January 2009
Place in performance rating 699 700
Type Laptop Laptop
Code name M96

Technical info

Core clock speed 720 MHz 675 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1536 320
Texture fill rate 92.2 billion / sec 21.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 3540 Million 514 million
Floating-point performance 432.0 gflops

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size large medium sized
SLI options 2-way
Interface MXM-A (3.0)

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 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA
1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs