Radeon 680M vs GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated347
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.02
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF106Rembrandt+
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 October 2010 (14 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$129 no data

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 cores144768
Core clock speed790 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate18.96105.6
Floating-point processing power0.455 TFLOPS3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs2448
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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1536 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth96 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMIPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 October 2010 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 50 Watt

Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 12 years, a 566.7% more advanced lithography process, and 112% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 450 OEM and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 450 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon 680M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM
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