NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, 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

1882 points

49% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

49 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

24 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

33 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

18 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

697.32 points

258% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

40962 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

37410 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1058 MHz

1537 MHz

45% 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

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

49.18 Gigapixels/s

45% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2048

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586

216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 RTX A500 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the RTX A500 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 680 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 680 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the RTX A500 Laptop has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 680.