Radeon HD 7950M vs GeForce GTX 680M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking502not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.71no data
Power efficiency5.77no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK104Wimbledon
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2012 (12 years ago)24 April 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$310.50 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores13441280
Core clock speed719 MHz700 MHz
Boost clock speed758 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,540 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate84.9056.00
Floating-point processing power2.038 TFLOPS1.792 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs11280

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).

Laptop sizelargelarge
Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/s128.0 GB/s
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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.11.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2012 24 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

GTX 680M has an age advantage of 1 month, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

HD 7950M, on the other hand, has 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 680M and Radeon HD 7950M. We've got no test results to judge.


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