NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 680MX sales 23 October 2012. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Kepler architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160 GB/s.

Power consumption is at 122 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 680MX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	430
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	6.13	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	23 October 2012 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 680MX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 680MX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	720 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	3540 Million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	92.2 billion/sec	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 680MX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
SLI options	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 680MX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 680MX. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision	+
Optimus	+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 680MX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 API
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 680MX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 680MX 10.73

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GTX 680MX 4138

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

GTX 680MX 6736

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GTX 680MX 25501

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

GTX 680MX 12221

GeekBench 5 CUDA

GTX 680MX 11307

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

GTX 680MX 36

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 680MX is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

16−18

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	24−27
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	16−18
Battlefield 5	30−35
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	21−24
Cyberpunk 2077	16−18
Far Cry 5	24−27
Far Cry New Dawn	30−33
Forza Horizon 4	70−75
Hitman 3	20−22
Horizon Zero Dawn	55−60
Metro Exodus	35−40
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−33
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	35−40
Watch Dogs: Legion	65−70

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	24−27
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	16−18
Battlefield 5	30−35
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	21−24
Cyberpunk 2077	16−18
Far Cry 5	24−27
Far Cry New Dawn	30−33
Forza Horizon 4	70−75
Hitman 3	20−22
Horizon Zero Dawn	55−60
Metro Exodus	35−40
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−33
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	35−40
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	27−30
Watch Dogs: Legion	65−70

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	24−27
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	16−18
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	21−24
Cyberpunk 2077	16−18
Far Cry 5	24−27
Forza Horizon 4	70−75
Hitman 3	20−22
Horizon Zero Dawn	55−60
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	35−40
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14
Watch Dogs: Legion	65−70

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

30−33

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	21−24
Far Cry New Dawn	16−18

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	12−14
Forza Horizon 4	45−50
Hitman 3	14−16
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24
Metro Exodus	16−18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion	65−70

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

18−20

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	10−11
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	45−50
Metro Exodus	9−10
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	14−16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

10−11

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 680MX's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

Radeon RX 560X Mobile 102.89

Iris Xe Graphics G7 101.86

GeForce GTX 765M SLI 100.28

GeForce GTX 680MX 100

Graphics 4-Cores iGPU (Arc) 98.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 98.14

GeForce GTX 580M SLI 97.76

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 680MX is Radeon RX 560X Mobile, which is faster by 3% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.