NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs AMD Radeon R7 M270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

AMD Radeon R7 M270

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 M270 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (825MHz vs 758MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M +221%

2.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M270

0.633 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

VS

Radeon R7 M270

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 600M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

825 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

1344

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.80 GTexel/s

-

2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

633.6 GFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Opal

N13E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

Opal XT

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.1

Vulkan

1.2.170

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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