Radeon 680M vs GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 336 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 22.22 |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2022) | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024) |
| GPU code name | TU106 | Rembrandt+ |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 9 July 2019 (5 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 cores | 2176 | 768 |
| Core clock speed | 1470 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1530 MHz | 2200 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 10,800 million | 13,100 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | 6 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 175 Watt | 50 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 208.1 | 105.6 |
| Floating-point processing power | 6.659 TFLOPS | 3.379 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 64 | 32 |
| TMUs | 136 | 48 |
| Tensor Cores | 272 | no data |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 34 | 12 |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
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 type | GDDR6 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 448.0 GB/s | no 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 Connectors | Portable Device Dependent | Portable Device Dependent |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | 6.7 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 7.5 | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 9 July 2019 | 3 January 2023 |
| Chip lithography | 12 nm | 6 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 175 Watt | 50 Watt |
Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 250% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.
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