Radeon 680M vs ATI Mobility 9600 PRO Turbo

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated333
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.06
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameM10Rembrandt+
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date13 February 2004 (20 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 coresno data768
Core clock speed337 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors76 million13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate1.348105.6
Floating-point processing powerno data3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs448
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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed243 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth7.776 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data-

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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 February 2004 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 130 nm 6 nm

Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 18 years, and a 2066.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo is a notebook card while Radeon 680M is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
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