Radeon 680M vs HD 7950 Boost

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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 data22.13
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTahitiRembrandt+
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date22 June 2012 (12 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

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 cores1792768
Core clock speed850 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed925 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate103.6105.6
Floating-point processing power3.315 TFLOPS3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs11248
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length274 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 June 2012 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 50 Watt

Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 10 years, a 366.7% more advanced lithography process, and 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950 Boost and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.


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