Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 680MX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GTX 680MX
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GTX 680MX
4266
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 680MX
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Neptune
-
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
October 2012
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
720 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1536
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
3540 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
122 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
92.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
160 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
3D Vision
-
+
Optimus
-
+