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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX: specs and benchmarks
Summary
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 10.64% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 680MX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 365 | |
| Value for money | 7.87 | |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 23 October 2012 (10 years old) | |
| Current price | $200 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| 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.
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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%
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: 16%
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: 16%
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%
GeekBench 5 CUDA
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 CUDA API by NVIDIA.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
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%
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Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 680MX. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 57 Mh/s |
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 | 55 |
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 | 14−16 | |
| Metro Exodus | 9−10 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 8−9 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 5−6 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 18−20 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6−7 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 16−18 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 18−20 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 18−20 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 0−1 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 5−6 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 7−8 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−11 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Metro Exodus | 4−5 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 6−7 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 5−6 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 8−9 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 6−7 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 3−4 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 9−10 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
| 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.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 680MX is Radeon RX 5300M, which is faster by 4% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 680MX:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 680MX according to our statistics.
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