NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 680MX sales 23 October 2012. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Kepler architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is 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 10.69% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 680MX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	392
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	8.56
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	23 October 2012 (11 years old)
Current price	$200	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 680MX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores	1536	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
CUDA cores	1536
Core clock speed	720 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	3540 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	92.2 billion/sec	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

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	+

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 680MX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
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	+
Optimus	+

API support

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

DirectX	12 API
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.1
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 680MX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 680MX 10.69

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GTX 680MX 4142

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 680MX 25501

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 680MX 6736

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GTX 680MX 12174

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 680MX 11307

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 680MX 36

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 680MX is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

16−18

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	16−18
Battlefield 5	35−40
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	16−18
Far Cry 5	27−30
Far Cry New Dawn	27−30
Forza Horizon 4	35−40
Hitman 3	27−30
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	21−24
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	16−18
Battlefield 5	35−40
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	16−18
Far Cry 5	27−30
Far Cry New Dawn	27−30
Forza Horizon 4	35−40
Hitman 3	27−30
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24
Metro Exodus	16−18
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	21−24
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	26
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	16−18
Battlefield 5	35−40
Cyberpunk 2077	16−18
Far Cry 5	27−30
Far Cry New Dawn	27−30
Forza Horizon 4	35−40
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	16−18
Hitman 3	16−18
Horizon Zero Dawn	16−18
Metro Exodus	9−10
Red Dead Redemption 2	8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8
Battlefield 5	18−20
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	16−18
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20
Forza Horizon 4	20−22
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion	5−6

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8
Hitman 3	10−11
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10
Metro Exodus	4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9−10

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	5−6
Battlefield 5	9−10
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	9−10
Far Cry New Dawn	10−12
Forza Horizon 4	14−16
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 680MX performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

Radeon RX 560 Mobile 105.14

Radeon RX 5300M 104.02

Radeon RX 560X Mobile 103.65

GeForce GTX 680MX 100

Iris Xe Graphics G7 99.72

GeForce GTX 765M SLI 99.16

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 97.57

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 680MX is Radeon RX 560X Mobile, which is faster by 4% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.