Radeon 680M vs RX Vega 5

Place in the ranking	647	336
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	21.50	22.22
Architecture	Vega (2017−2020)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Vega	Rembrandt+
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2020 (4 years ago)	3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores	320	768
Core clock speed	no data	2000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz	2200 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	105.6
Floating-point processing power	no data	3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	32
TMUs	no data	48
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	12

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).

Interface	no data	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	no data	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	no data	System Shared
Memory bus width	no data	System Shared
Memory clock speed	no data	System Shared
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 Connectors

no data

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12_1	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.7
OpenGL	no data	4.6
OpenCL	no data	2.0
Vulkan	-	1.3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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.

RX Vega 5 4.64

Radeon 680M 15.98
+244%

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.

RX Vega 5 3535

Radeon 680M 10371
+193%

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.

RX Vega 5 11704

Radeon 680M 34600
+196%

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RX Vega 5 2438

Radeon 680M 6865
+182%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX Vega 5 18282

Radeon 680M 43225
+136%

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX Vega 5 128628

Radeon 680M 359776
+180%

3DMark Time Spy Graphics

RX Vega 5 733

Radeon 680M 2303
+214%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD	18 −106%	37 +106%
1440p	4−5 −325%	17 +325%
4K	3−4 −267%	11 +267%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

−333%

39
+333%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	15 −160%	35−40 +160%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12 −217%	38 +217%
Battlefield 5	12−14 −375%	55−60 +375%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	13 −169%	35−40 +169%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 −263%	29 +263%
Far Cry 5	10−11 −310%	40−45 +310%
Far Cry New Dawn	12−14 −262%	45−50 +262%
Forza Horizon 4	27−30 −279%	110−120 +279%
Hitman 3	8 −300%	32 +300%
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35 −177%	85−90 +177%
Metro Exodus	20 −200%	60−65 +200%
Red Dead Redemption 2	18 −161%	45−50 +161%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	16−18 −235%	55−60 +235%
Watch Dogs: Legion	45−50 −88.9%	85−90 +88.9%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14 −200%	35−40 +200%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5 −675%	31 +675%
Battlefield 5	12−14 −375%	55−60 +375%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12 −192%	35−40 +192%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 −163%	21 +163%
Far Cry 5	10−11 −310%	40−45 +310%
Far Cry New Dawn	12−14 −262%	45−50 +262%
Forza Horizon 4	27−30 −279%	110−120 +279%
Hitman 3	10−11 −200%	30 +200%
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35 −177%	85−90 +177%
Metro Exodus	15 −300%	60−65 +300%
Red Dead Redemption 2	14 −236%	45−50 +236%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	17 −176%	47 +176%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18 −135%	40−45 +135%
Watch Dogs: Legion	45−50 −88.9%	85−90 +88.9%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14 −200%	35−40 +200%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5 −575%	27 +575%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−11 −250%	35−40 +250%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 −113%	17 +113%
Far Cry 5	10−11 −310%	40−45 +310%
Forza Horizon 4	27−30 −279%	110−120 +279%
Hitman 3	10−11 −170%	27 +170%
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35 −38.7%	43 +38.7%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14 −186%	40 +186%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9 −167%	24 +167%
Watch Dogs: Legion	45−50 +150%	18 −150%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

−292%

45−50
+292%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	9−10 −267%	30−35 +267%
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 −286%	27−30 +286%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −350%	18−20 +350%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 −375%	18−20 +375%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −450%	11 +450%
Far Cry 5	5−6 −300%	20−22 +300%
Forza Horizon 4	9−10 −944%	90−95 +944%
Hitman 3	9−10 −122%	20−22 +122%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −218%	35−40 +218%
Metro Exodus	2−3 −1500%	30−35 +1500%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5 −325%	17 +325%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 −262%	100−110 +262%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

9−10

−222%

27−30
+222%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4 −467%	16−18 +467%
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4 −333%	12−14 +333%
Hitman 3	1−2 −1200%	12−14 +1200%
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5 −2125%	85−90 +2125%
Metro Exodus	1−2 −1700%	18−20 +1700%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	0−1	13

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −233%	10−11 +233%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3 −300%	8−9 +300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −350%	9−10 +350%
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1	4
Far Cry 5	2−3 −350%	9−10 +350%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −500%	24−27 +500%
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2 −600%	7−8 +600%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

5−6

−200%

14−16
+200%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	27 +0%	27 +0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

+0%

This is how RX Vega 5 and Radeon 680M compete in popular games:

Radeon 680M is 106% faster in 1080p
Radeon 680M is 325% faster in 1440p
Radeon 680M is 267% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Watch Dogs: Legion, with 1080p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RX Vega 5 is 150% faster.
in Horizon Zero Dawn, with 4K resolution and the High Preset, the Radeon 680M is 2125% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

RX Vega 5 is ahead in 1 test (1%)
Radeon 680M is ahead in 66 tests (94%)
there's a draw in 3 tests (4%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.64	15.98
Recency	7 January 2020	3 January 2023
Chip lithography	7 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	50 Watt

RX Vega 5 has 233.3% lower power consumption.

Radeon 680M, on the other hand, has a 244.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon 680M is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon RX Vega 5 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.