Tegra K1 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 efficiency20.95no data
Architectureno dataKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameno dataGK20A
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 December 2018 (5 years ago)15 October 2014 (10 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 data192
Core clock speedno data756 MHz
Boost clock speedno data951 MHz
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt8 Watt
Texture fill rateno data7.608
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3652 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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++

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 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno dataES 3.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-1.1
CUDA-3.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 December 2018 15 October 2014
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 8 Watt

Qualcomm Adreno 680 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 14.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm Adreno 680 and Tegra K1 GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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Qualcomm Adreno 680
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