NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX and ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 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 X2300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 479 MHz
48.1x more texture fill rate: 92.2 billion / sec vs 1.916 GTexel / s
384x more pipelines: 1536 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
3.2x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 784 MHz
87.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4192 vs 48
Around 99% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 524 vs 263

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 October 2012 vs 1 March 2007
Core clock speed	720 MHz vs 479 MHz
Texture fill rate	92.2 billion / sec vs 1.916 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 784 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4192 vs 48
PassMark - G2D Mark	524 vs 263

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4192

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

524

263

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX	ATI Mobility Radeon X2300
PassMark - G3D Mark	4192	48
PassMark - G2D Mark	524	263
Geekbench - OpenCL	12227
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 X2300
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	R500
Launch date	23 October 2012	1 March 2007
Place in performance rating	650	647
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Code name		M64
Technical info
Core clock speed	720 MHz	479 MHz
CUDA cores	1536
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1536	4
Texture fill rate	92.2 billion / sec	1.916 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt
Transistor count	3540 Million	107 million
Boost clock speed		480 MHz
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	160 GB / s	7.14 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	400 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	784 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	128
Shared memory	0	no
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