Radeon 680M vs Radeon 660M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 680M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the Radeon 660M that utilizes 6 pipelines and 384 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 Radeon 660M over Radeon 680M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 680M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 60%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.7 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (28K vs 14K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (768 vs 384)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
27
13
11
-
The Witcher 3 -
9
12
-
-
Counter-Strike 2 -
28
17
13
-
Far Cry 6 -
20
16
9
-
Hogwarts Legacy -
10
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
18
15
13
-
Ghost of Tsushima -
13
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077 -
9
9
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
17
14
11
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 17
1080p Ultra - 12
1440p Ultra - 9
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
2140
Time Spy 2327 1514
Solar Bay 9712 6396
Port Royal 1008 586
Fire Strike 6903 4879
Wild Life Extreme 4163 2676
Night Raid 27534 18958
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 680M +104%
28675
14065
Background Blur 73.8 img/sec 36 img/sec
Face Detection 30.1 img/sec 16.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.48 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.17 Gpixels/sec 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.17 Gpixels/sec 0.53 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.37 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 105 Gpixels/sec 46.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4640 FPS 2056.5 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
4444
G2D Mark 723 654
DirectX 11 40 FPS 47 FPS
DirectX 12 21 FPS 23 FPS
GPU Compute 2006 Ops/s 1321 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 176 & 5 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 680M +158%
238.39
92.56
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 12 & 4 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 680M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-08 (Wahyu)Geekbench 6 OpenCL26880
Radeon 660M
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
5834
GB6 ML Half Precision
8202
GB6 ML Quantized
4169
Image Classification (SP) 1976 1465
Image Segmentation (HP) 3138 1706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6693 4266
Face Detection (HP) 7213 5115
Pose Estimation (Q) 21849 12992
Text Classification (SP) 1497 1116
Machine Translation (HP) 2579 1859
Object Detection (SP) 2154 1574
Depth Estimation (Q) 9635 6538
Style Transfer (SP) 56269 26656
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 680M and Radeon 660M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 1, 2022 January 1, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Rembrandt Rembrandt
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX Vega 8 -
Successor - Radeon 8050S - Radeon 8040S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H or above - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H 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
- AMD Ryzen 5 150
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
Laptop GPU ranking (104th and 117th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 2200-2400 MHz (configurable) 1800-1900 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 384
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 6
Ray-tracing Cores 12 6
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 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 29-30 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 106-115 GTexel/s 43-46 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 680M +147%
3.4-3.7 TFLOPS
1.4-1.5 TFLOPS

Physical

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

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No

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