Radeon 680M vs Apple M1 GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated340
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.87
Architectureno dataRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataRembrandt+
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)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 cores8768
Core clock speedno data2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistorsno data13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data105.6
Floating-point processing powerno data3.379 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data48
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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm

Apple M1 GPU has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

Radeon 680M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 GPU and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.


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