AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1250MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +339%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +175%

521

GeForce GTX 680M

189

Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1344

224

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GK104

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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