Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Radeon 680M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 2 years newer Radeon 680M that utilizes 12 pipelines and 768 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 680M over RX Vega 7
Reasons to consider the Radeon 680M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.7 vs 1.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 12 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (28K vs 14K)
  • Has 71% more shading units (768 vs 448)

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
947
Radeon 680M +126%
2140
Time Spy 1067 2327
Solar Bay - 9712
Port Royal - 1008
Fire Strike 3394 6903
Wild Life Extreme 2013 4163
Night Raid 13085 27534
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
14408
28675
Background Blur 33.7 img/sec 73.8 img/sec
Face Detection 15.4 img/sec 30.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.93 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.69 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.37 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 54.7 Gpixels/sec 105 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1957.6 FPS 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
2250
4444
G2D Mark 568 723
DirectX 11 16 FPS 40 FPS
DirectX 12 11 FPS 21 FPS
GPU Compute 1215 Ops/s 2006 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 88 & 176 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
n/a
238.39
Sources: Blender [9] – 12 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX Vega 7
No benchmark results yet
Radeon 680M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-08 (Wahyu)Geekbench 6 OpenCL26880

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
3157
5834
GB6 ML Half Precision
4191
8202
GB6 ML Quantized
2365
4169
Image Classification (SP) 1323 1976
Image Segmentation (HP) 1675 3138
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2919 6693
Face Detection (HP) 4386 7213
Pose Estimation (Q) 9348 21849
Text Classification (SP) 1024 1497
Machine Translation (HP) 1888 2579
Object Detection (SP) 1452 2154
Depth Estimation (Q) 5272 9635
Style Transfer (SP) 19585 56269
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Radeon 680M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2020 January 1, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Raven RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename - Rembrandt
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX Vega 8
Successor - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) - Radeon 8050S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or above - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 5 7430U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7530U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5625U
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
- AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
- and 4 more
- 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
Laptop GPU ranking (120th and 103rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) 2200-2400 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 448 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 28 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 12
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No 12
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-16 GPixel/s 70-77 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42-56 GTexel/s 106-115 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS
Radeon 680M +106%
3.4-3.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 6 nm
Die Size - 208 mm²
Transistor Count - 13.1 billion
Transistor Density - 62.98 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent -
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent -
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent -
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12.1 12
Vulkan - 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.0
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No

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