Jetson Nano GPU vs Qualcomm Adreno 680

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking867not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.84no data
Architectureno dataMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameno dataGM20B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 December 2018 (5 years ago)March 2019 (5 years 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 data128
Core clock speedno data640 MHz
Boost clock speedno data921 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data14.74
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2358 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data16

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).

Interfaceno dataIGP

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory+no 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 10 Watt

Qualcomm Adreno 680 has a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm Adreno 680 and Jetson Nano GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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