Radeon 680M vs GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated353
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.54
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF114Rembrandt+
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date15 November 2010 (14 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 cores288768
Core clock speed650 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate31.20105.6
Floating-point processing power0.7488 TFLOPS3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs4848
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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount768 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed850 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth81.6 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMIPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 November 2010 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 50 Watt

Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 12 years, a 566.7% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 is a desktop card while Radeon 680M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2
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