AMD Radeon 680M vs GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
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AMD Radeon 680M
Rembrandt
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
GP107 (N17P-G0)
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 680M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 5 years older GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 5 pipelines and 640 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 680M
- Performs slightly better (up to 18%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- 95% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.7 vs 1.9 TFLOPS)
- Ray-tracing support with 12 dedicated RT cores
- Achieves 30% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (28K vs 22K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
- Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | - | 26 13 12 - |
| The Witcher 3 | - | 19 17 11 - |
| Counter-Strike 2 | - | 42 23 15 - |
| Far Cry 6 | - | 29 23 14 - |
| Hogwarts Legacy | - | 15 10 10 - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | - | 26 24 13 11 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | - | 14 - - - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - | 12 9 - - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | - | 24 21 13 - |
| 1080p High | - | 23 |
| 1080p Ultra | - | 16 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 11 |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 2327 | 2092 |
| Solar Bay | 9712 | - |
| Port Royal | 1008 | - |
| Fire Strike | 6903 | 6526 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 4163 | 4262 |
| Night Raid | 27534 | 28118 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 73.8 img/sec | 54.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 30.1 img/sec | 25.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.93 Gpixels/sec | 0.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 1.31 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 1.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.37 Gpixels/sec | 0.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 105 Gpixels/sec | 70.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 4640 FPS | 2008.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 723 | 292 |
| DirectX 11 | 40 FPS | 35 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 21 FPS | 19 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 2006 Ops/s | 1813 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 680M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-08 (Wahyu) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 26880 |
GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 1976 | 1251 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3138 | 1693 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6693 | 3586 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 7213 | 2839 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 21849 | 14257 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1497 | 1087 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2579 | 1492 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 2154 | 1531 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 9635 | 5281 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 56269 | 23251 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 680M and GeForce GTX 1050 MobileGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | January 1, 2022 | January 3, 2017 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Pascal |
| GPU Codename | Rembrandt | GP107 (N17P-G0) |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon RX Vega 8 | - |
| Successor | - Radeon 8050S | - GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H or above | - Intel Core i5 8300H or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen 7 170 - AMD Ryzen 7 7735U - AMD Ryzen 7 7736U - AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS - AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U - AMD Ryzen 7 6800U - AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS - and 2 more |
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Laptop GPU ranking (103rd and 129th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 1354 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2200-2400 MHz (configurable) | 1493 MHz |
| Shading Units | 768 | 640 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 48 | 40 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 16 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 12 | 5 |
| Tensor Cores | - | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 12 | No |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 48KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 1024KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 70-77 GPixel/s | 24 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 106-115 GTexel/s | 60 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 15 W | 55 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 208 mm² | 132 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 13.1 billion | 3.3 billion |
| Transistor Density | 62.98 MTr/mm² | 25 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 97°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR5 |
| Memory Size | - | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | - | 1752 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 7008 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | - | 6.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | - | 1.4 |
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