GeForce GTX 680MX and Radeon HD 6970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 680MX vs Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce GTX 680MX
4266
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce GTX 680MX
Radeon HD 6970M
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
-
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2012
January 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
-
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
720 MHz
680 MHz
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
-
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3540 Million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
960
Power consumption (TDP)
122 Watt
75-100 Watt
Texture fill rate
92.2 billion/sec
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
3D Vision
+
-
Optimus
+
-