RTX A2000 Max-Q vs Radeon 680M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking336not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency22.29no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRembrandt+GA106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores7682560
Core clock speed2000 MHz682 MHz
Boost clock speed2200 MHz1207 MHz
Number of transistors13,100 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt95 Watt
Texture fill rate105.696.56
Floating-point processing power3.379 TFLOPS6.18 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs4880
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Cores1220

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data176.0 GB/s
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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 12 April 2021
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 95 Watt

Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 1 year, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 90% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 680M and RTX A2000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 680M is a notebook graphics card while RTX A2000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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