Radeon 680M vs RX 5950

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	353
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	20.54
Architecture	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Navi 21	Rembrandt+
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	no data	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 cores	4864	768
Core clock speed	no data	2000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1535 MHz	2200 MHz
Number of transistors	21,000 million	13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	466.6	105.6
Floating-point processing power	14.93 TFLOPS	3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs	96	32
TMUs	304	48
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	12

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None

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 type	GDDR6	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	384 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	672.0 GB/s	no 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	no data	2.0
Vulkan	-	1.3

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	7 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	50 Watt

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