AMD Radeon 680M vs Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 680M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 4 years and 1 month newer Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core) that utilizes 4 pipelines and 256 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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Xe3 Graphics (2-Core) over Radeon 680M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 680M
  • 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.7 vs 1.3 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.6x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (28K vs 11K)
  • Has 3x more shading units (768 vs 256)
Reasons to consider the Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology

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 -
Solar Bay 9712 -
Port Royal 1008 -
Fire Strike 6903 -
Wild Life Extreme 4163 -
Night Raid 27534 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 73.8 img/sec -
Face Detection 30.1 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 0.93 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 1.17 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 1.17 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.37 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 105 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 4640 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 Xe3 Graphics (2-Core)
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 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 3138 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6693 -
Face Detection (HP) 7213 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 21849 -
Text Classification (SP) 1497 -
Machine Translation (HP) 2579 -
Object Detection (SP) 2154 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 9635 -
Style Transfer (SP) 56269 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 680M and Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 1, 2022 January 5, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Celestial
GPU Codename Rembrandt Panther Lake
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX Vega 8 -
Successor - Radeon 8050S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 332 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 5 315
- Intel Core 7 350
- Intel Core 5 320
- Intel Core Ultra 5 332
- Intel Core Ultra 5 322
Laptop GPU ranking (103rd and 81st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2200-2400 MHz (configurable) 2500 MHz
Shading Units 768 256
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 4
Tensor Cores - 32
Ray-tracing Cores 12 2
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 70-77 GPixel/s 20 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 106-115 GTexel/s 40 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 680M +185%
3.4-3.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0
TGP 15 W 25 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 3 nm
Die Size 208 mm² -
Transistor Count 13.1 billion -
Transistor Density 62.98 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 2.1

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