AMD Radeon 680M vs Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 680M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU) that utilizes 64 pipelines and 512 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Key distinctions and advantages of UHD Graphics (64 EU) over Radeon 680M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 680M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.7 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 12 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 2.3x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (28K vs 12K)
  • Has 50% more shading units (768 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
18
-
-
-
The Witcher 3 -
11
9
-
-
Counter-Strike 2 -
18
10
9
-
Far Cry 6 -
11
-
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy -
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
12
10
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima -
10
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
11
10
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 12
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 2327 1016
Solar Bay 9712 -
Port Royal 1008 -
Fire Strike 6903 3342
Wild Life Extreme 4163 2378
Night Raid 27534 13315
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 680M +127%
28675
Background Blur 73.8 img/sec 27.6 img/sec
Face Detection 30.1 img/sec 19.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.52 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.17 Gpixels/sec 0.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.17 Gpixels/sec 0.37 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.37 Gpixels/sec 0.14 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 105 Gpixels/sec 33 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4640 FPS 2055.2 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 723 -
DirectX 11 40 FPS -
DirectX 12 21 FPS -
GPU Compute 2006 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 176 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 12 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 680M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-08 (Wahyu)Geekbench 6 OpenCL26880
Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU)
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 1976 1170
Image Segmentation (HP) 3138 1951
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6693 1359
Face Detection (HP) 7213 2991
Pose Estimation (Q) 21849 5311
Text Classification (SP) 1497 984
Machine Translation (HP) 2579 1138
Object Detection (SP) 2154 1273
Depth Estimation (Q) 9635 3655
Style Transfer (SP) 56269 19706
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 680M and Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 1, 2022 January 4, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Xe architecture (Gen12)
GPU Codename Rembrandt Alder Lake GT1
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX Vega 8 - Radeon 660M
Successor - Radeon 8050S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H or above - Intel Core i3 1215U 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
- Intel Core 7 240H
- Intel Core 3 100U
- Intel Core i3 1305U
- Intel Core i3 1315U
- Intel Core i7 13620H
- Intel Core i3 1220P
- Intel Core i3 1215U
- Intel Core i7 12650H
Laptop GPU ranking (103rd and 131st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2200-2400 MHz (configurable) 850-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 64
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 12 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 70-77 GPixel/s 14-24 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 106-115 GTexel/s 27-48 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 680M +147%
3.4-3.7 TFLOPS
0.9-1.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 6 nm 10 nm
Die Size 208 mm² -
Transistor Count 13.1 billion -
Transistor Density 62.98 MTr/mm² -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4a

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