NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs AMD Radeon E8950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1000MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +100%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

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Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 600M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1344

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Amethyst

N13E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

E8950

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

95W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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