Qualcomm Adreno 680 vs GeForce 405M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated869
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.02
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)no data
GPU code nameGT218no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 January 2011 (13 years ago)6 December 2018 (5 years 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 cores16no data
Core clock speed606 MHzno data
Number of transistors260 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt7 Watt
Texture fill rate4.848no data
Floating-point processing power0.03878 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops73no data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

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).

Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data

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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amountUp to 512 MBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speedUp to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHzno data
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 ConnectorsDisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVIno data
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API12
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL4.5no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2011 6 December 2018
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 7 Watt

Qualcomm Adreno 680 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 405M and Qualcomm Adreno 680. We've got no test results to judge.


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