Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Radeon 680M
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
Raven
AMD Radeon 680M
Rembrandt
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 3 years and 11 months newer Radeon 680M that utilizes 12 pipelines and 768 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 significantly better (up to 70%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 68% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.7 vs 2.2 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- Ray-tracing support with 12 dedicated RT cores
- Achieves 2.7x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (28K vs 10K)
- Has 50% more shading units (768 vs 512)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 25 11 10 - |
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| The Witcher 3 | 9 10 - - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 27 16 12 - |
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| Far Cry 6 | 20 17 10 - |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 11 - - - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 22 17 14 - |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 12 9 - - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | - - - - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 14 13 10 - |
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| 1080p High | 16 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 12 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 9 | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1410 | 2327 |
| Solar Bay | - | 9712 |
| Port Royal | - | 1008 |
| Fire Strike | 4497 | 6903 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 2532 | 4163 |
| Night Raid | 18010 | 27534 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 21.2 img/sec | 73.8 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 10.9 img/sec | 30.1 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.34 Gpixels/sec | 0.93 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.65 Gpixels/sec | 1.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.51 Gpixels/sec | 1.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.13 Gpixels/sec | 0.37 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 34.9 Gpixels/sec | 105 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 1322.9 FPS | 4640 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 398 | 723 |
| DirectX 11 | 10 FPS | 40 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 8 FPS | 21 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 861 Ops/s | 2006 Ops/s |
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX Vega 8
No benchmark results yet
Radeon 680M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-08 (Wahyu) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 26880 |
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) | 924 | 1976 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 1148 | 3138 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 2211 | 6693 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 2819 | 7213 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 7106 | 21849 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 832 | 1497 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1021 | 2579 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1040 | 2154 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 3885 | 9635 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 14495 | 56269 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Radeon 680MGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | February 13, 2018 | January 1, 2022 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Entry-level | Entry-level |
| Architecture | GCN 5.0 | RDNA 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | Raven | Rembrandt |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Radeon RX Vega 8 |
| Successor | - | - Radeon 8050S |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above | - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U - AMD Ryzen 7 5825U - AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U - AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS - AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX - AMD Ryzen 7 5700U - AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS - and 8 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 (127th and 104th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) | 2200-2400 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 512 | 768 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 32 | 48 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 8 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 8 | 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 | 9-17 GPixel/s | 70-77 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 35-67 GTexel/s | 106-115 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | IGP | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 25 W | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 6 nm |
| Die Size | 210 mm² | 208 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 4.94 billion | 13.1 billion |
| Transistor Density | 23.52 MTr/mm² | 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 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Ray Tracing | No | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
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