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 19.73 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.
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.
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.
CUDA cores
1536
Transistor count
3540 Million
of 21100
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
of 12
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
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
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
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
19.73
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
6736.00
3DMark Vantage Performance
25501.00
Passmark
4368
Octane Render OctaneBench
36
Mining hashrate
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
7.42
Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net
The Witcher 3 (2015)
low / 768p
72.00
medium / 768p
43.60
high / 1080p
26.40
ultra / 1080p
14.20
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 680MX performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 680MX from AMD is Radeon HD 8970M, which is faster by 1% and higher by 6 positions in our rating.
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