Qualcomm Adreno 680 vs GeForce 720M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated865
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.87
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)no data
GPU code nameGF117no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2013 (11 years ago)6 December 2018 (5 years 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 cores96no data
Core clock speed625 MHzno data
Number of transistors585 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Watt7 Watt
Texture fill rate10.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs16no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data

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 typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2013 6 December 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 7 Watt

Qualcomm Adreno 680 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 371.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 720M and Qualcomm Adreno 680. We've got no test results to judge.


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