NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon 680M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q and AMD Radeon 680M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

AMD Radeon 680M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

2.7x more pipelines: 2048 vs 768

Pipelines	2048 vs 768

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 712 MHz
2.1x more boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1057 MHz
Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 67.65 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 11 May 2021
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 712 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1057 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 67.65 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 680M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q	AMD Radeon 680M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		378
Geekbench - OpenCL		26608

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q	AMD Radeon 680M
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	RDNA 2.0
Code name	GA107	Rembrandt
Launch date	11 May 2021	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	not rated	1232
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1057 MHz	2200 MHz
Core clock speed	712 MHz	2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	6 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)	211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)	6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS	3.379 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	768
Pixel fill rate	33.82 GPixel/s	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	67.65 GTexel/s	105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt
Compute units		12
Transistor count		13100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	176.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6