NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M +209%

2.038 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

VS

Radeon 520 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 600M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

-

758 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

1344

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

-

2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Banks

N13E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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