AMD Radeon R5 M330 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare AMD Radeon R5 M330 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, 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

185 points

1261 points

581% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

28 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

17 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

19 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

14 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5430 points

16368 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4983 points

16340 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5844 points

18409 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4573 points

18023 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

955 MHz

1006 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1030 MHz

1058 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

14.4 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

1235% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

18 W

983% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.24 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

310% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

557% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

1536

380% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

540% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

443rd of 586

246th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.5

Radeon R5 M330 vs GeForce GTX 680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 680 beats the Radeon R5 M330 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 680 has a slightly 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 GTX 680 also has a slightly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R5 M330 has a significantly lower TDP at 18 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 680 over the Radeon R5 M330.