NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX and ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 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 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 14.4x more texture fill rate: 92.2 billion / sec vs 6.4 GTexel / s
  • 12.8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 120
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 2200 MHz
  • 14.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4138 vs 283
  • Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 534 vs 371
  • Around 96% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3336 vs 1701
  • Around 96% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3336 vs 1701
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 October 2012 vs 28 June 2007
Texture fill rate 92.2 billion / sec vs 6.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 120
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 2200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4138 vs 283
PassMark - G2D Mark 534 vs 371
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3336 vs 1701
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336 vs 1701

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 720 MHz
  • 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 122 Watt
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3695 vs 3571
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3695 vs 3571
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 800 MHz vs 720 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 122 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3695 vs 3571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3695 vs 3571

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4138
283
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
534
371
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3571
3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3336
1701
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3571
3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3336
1701
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 4138 283
PassMark - G2D Mark 534 371
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 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3336 1701
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3571 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336 1701

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Launch date 23 October 2012 28 June 2007
Place in performance rating 650 652
Type Laptop Desktop
Code name RV630
Launch price (MSRP) $199

Technical info

Core clock speed 720 MHz 800 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1536 120
Texture fill rate 92.2 billion / sec 6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 3540 Million 390 million
Floating-point performance 192 gflops

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 160 GB / s 35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 2200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video