GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon 680M

CORE STATE Rembrandt+

VRAM System Shared

CLOCK SPEED 2200 MHz

TDP 50 W

BUS WIDTH System Shared

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 6 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

378

369

geekbench_opencl

22,994

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

25,850

31,001

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

680M

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

768

1,664 +116.7%

Shaders

768

1,664 +116.7%

TMUs

48

104 +116.7%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Compute Units

12

—

Clocks

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2200 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

System Shared

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

System Shared

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

—

4,096

Memory Type

System Shared

GDDR5

Memory Bus

System Shared

256 bit

Bandwidth

System Dependent

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

L0 Cache

32 KB per WGP

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

70.40 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

105.6 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.379 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)

—

AI/RT

RT Cores

12

—

Power

TDP

50 W

148 W

TDP (W)

50

148 +196.0%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Rembrandt+

GM204

Generation

Navi II IGP (Rembrandt Mobile)

GeForce 900

Process Size

6 nm

28 nm

Transistors

13,100 million

5,200 million

Die Size

208 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

63.0M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

Active

End-of-life

Predecessor

Vega II IGP

GeForce 700

Successor

Navi III IGP

GeForce 10

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