NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon 680M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Max-Q

AMD Radeon 680M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 128.4 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
3.3x more pipelines: 2560 vs 768
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 6 nm

Launch date	2023 vs 4 Jan 2022
Texture fill rate	128.4 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2560 vs 768
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 6 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Around 75% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1605 MHz
5.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 85 Watt

Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1605 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 85 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 680M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q	AMD Radeon 680M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		378
Geekbench - OpenCL		26608

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q	AMD Radeon 680M
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 2.0
Code name	AD107	Rembrandt
Launch date	2023	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	not rated	1232
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1605 MHz	2200 MHz
Core clock speed	1140 MHz	2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	6 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	128.4 GFLOPS (1:64)	211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.218 TFLOPS (1:1)	6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.218 TFLOPS	3.379 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	768
Pixel fill rate	51.36 GPixel/s	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	128.4 GTexel/s	105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 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 x16	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	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	168.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	96 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6