NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

103% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

28 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2038 points

105% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

990 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

125% significantly higher Blender score

86.10 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13627 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9799 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10459 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9867 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10175 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9382 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

1469 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1058 MHz

1532 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

25 W

680% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

38% slightly higher pixel rate

24.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

268% significantly higher texture rate

36.77 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

300% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

433% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586

307th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 680 vs GeForce MX150 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 680 GPU is faster than the GeForce MX150 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce MX150 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce MX150 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX150 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 680 is faster than the GeForce MX150.