NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX and ATI Radeon HD 5970 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 300 Watt
• Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4142 vs 2301
• Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 589 vs 419
• Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5683 vs 3977
• Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3571 vs 3454
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3336 vs 3213
• Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5683 vs 3977
• Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3571 vs 3454
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3336 vs 3213

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5970

• Around 1% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 720 MHz
• 2.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 92.2 billion / sec
• 2.1x more pipelines: 2x 1600 vs 1536
• Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5970

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4142 2301
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	589 419
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5683 3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3571 3454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3336 3213
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5683 3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3571 3454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3336 3213

Compare specifications (specs)