NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 680MX sales 23 October 2012. This is Kepler architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160 GB/s.

Power consumption is at 122 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 21.07 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining Gaming AMD equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of GeForce GTX 680MX's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

159

Architecture

Kepler

Type

Laptop

Release date

23 October 2012

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 680MX's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 680MX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1536

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

CUDA cores

1536

Core clock speed

720 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

3540 Million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

122 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

92.2 billion/sec

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 680MX's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

SLI options

2-way

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 680MX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

2500 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

160 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Shared memory

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 680MX. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision

3D Vision / 3DTV Play

CUDA

SLI

DirectX 11

FXAA

TXAA

Adaptive VSync

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 680MX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12 API

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

OpenCL

1.1

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 680MX. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

21.25

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

6736

3DMark Vantage Performance

25501

Passmark

4353

Octane Render OctaneBench

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 680MX. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

57 Mh/s

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 680MX is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

0.05

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

The Witcher 3 (2015)

low / 768p

medium / 768p

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 680MX performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

106.45 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M SLI

103.04 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

102.71 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX SLI

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

99.95 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

99.34 %

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

98.86 %

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 680MX from AMD is Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.