Radeon 680M vs Edge 3D 2120XL

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated333
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.23
Architectureno dataRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNV1Rembrandt+
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 September 1995 (29 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data768
Core clock speed60 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors1 million13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology500 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate0.06105.6
Floating-point processing powerno data3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs132
TMUs148
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x8
Length191 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDRAMSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width32 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed60 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth240.0 MB/sno data
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VGAPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 1995 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 500 nm 6 nm

Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 27 years, and a 8233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Edge 3D 2120XL and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Edge 3D 2120XL
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