AMD Radeon 680M vs Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)
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AMD Radeon 680M
Rembrandt
Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 680M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 1 year and 10 months newer Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core) that utilizes 288 pipelines and 2304 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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.9x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- 73% higher maximum theoretical performance (6.4 vs 3.7 TFLOPS)
- Has 3x more shading units (2304 vs 768)
- Achieves 50% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (43K vs 28K)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 2327 | - |
| Solar Bay | 9712 | 22637 |
| Port Royal | 1008 | - |
| Fire Strike | 6903 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 4163 | 14021 |
| Night Raid | 27534 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 73.8 img/sec | 82.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 30.1 img/sec | 53.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.93 Gpixels/sec | 1.82 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 2.59 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 1.84 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.37 Gpixels/sec | 0.48 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 105 Gpixels/sec | 148.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 4640 FPS | 4893.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 723 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 40 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 21 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 2006 Ops/s | - |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 680M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-08 (Wahyu) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 26880 |
Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)
No benchmark results yet
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) | 1976 | 5578 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3138 | 9924 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6693 | 13323 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 7213 | 19900 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 21849 | 35730 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1497 | 2904 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2579 | 4985 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 2154 | 5496 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 9635 | 23344 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 56269 | 78342 |
| Framework | ONNX | Core ML |
| Backend | DirectML | GPU |
Results were compared using different ML frameworks
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 680M and Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)General
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 1, 2022 | October 31, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Rembrandt | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon RX Vega 8 | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop |
| Successor | - Radeon 8050S | - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H or above | - Apple M3 Pro or above |
| Used in CPUs | - 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 |
- Apple M3 Pro |
Laptop GPU ranking (104th and 61st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2200-2400 MHz (configurable) | 1380 MHz |
| Shading Units | 768 | 2304 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 48 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 72 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 12 | 288 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 12 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 70-77 GPixel/s | 99 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 106-115 GTexel/s | 199 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Custom |
| TGP | 15 W | 30 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 208 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | 13.1 billion | 25.2 billion |
| Transistor Density | 62.98 MTr/mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | - | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 6400 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 12800 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
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