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Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M based on its gaming, benchmarks and compute performance.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 860M vs 680M among Laptop GPUs over 35W TDP
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Sky Diver Factor and Fire Strike Factor | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,020 MHz | vs | 719 MHz | More than 40% higher clock speed | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 5,012 MHz | vs | 3,600 MHz | Around 40% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher turbo clock speed | 1,085 MHz | vs | 719 MHz | More than 50% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,253 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | Around 40% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 75W | vs | 100W | 25% lower TDP | |||
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| Much better T-Rex score | 3,356.7 | vs | 2,890.54 | More than 15% better T-Rex score | |||
| Much better PassMark score | 3,377 | vs | 1,719 | More than 95% better PassMark score | |||
| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Much higher diablo III framerate | 157.25 fps | vs | 105.24 fps | Around 50% higher diablo III framerate | |||
| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 20,891 | vs | 18,276.5 | Around 15% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 112 | vs | 40 | 72 more texture mapping units | |||
| Better 3DMark06 score | 5,897.5 | vs | 4,902 | More than 20% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 115.2 GB/s | vs | 80.2 GB/s | Around 45% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher texture rate | 80.5 GTexel/s | vs | 40.8 GTexel/s | More than 95% higher texture rate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 1,932.7 GFLOPS | vs | 1,305.6 GFLOPS | Around 50% better floating-point performance | |||
| More shading units | 1,344 | vs | 640 | 704 more shading units | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 16 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Significantly wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| Higher crysis 3 framerate | 21.8 fps | vs | 18.75 fps | More than 15% higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Slightly better face detection score | 28.08 mPixels/s | vs | 22.83 mPixels/s | Around 25% better face detection score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 860M vs 680M
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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