NVIDIA RTX A500 vs AMD Radeon 680M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 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 RTX A500

AMD Radeon 680M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500

Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 113.3 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
2.7x more pipelines: 2048 vs 768

Texture fill rate	113.3 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2048 vs 768

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 39% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1770 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
4x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 60 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 10 Nov 2021
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1770 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 60 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 680M

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500	AMD Radeon 680M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		378
Geekbench - OpenCL		26608

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500	AMD Radeon 680M
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	RDNA 2.0
Code name	GA107	Rembrandt
Launch date	10 Nov 2021	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	not rated	1232
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz	2200 MHz
Core clock speed	1440 MHz	2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	6 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	113.3 GFLOPS (1:64)	211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.250 TFLOPS (1:1)	6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.250 TFLOPS	3.379 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	768
Pixel fill rate	56.64 GPixel/s	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	113.3 GTexel/s	105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	15 Watt
Compute units		12
Transistor count		13100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Single-slot	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
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	112.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6