AMD Radeon 680M vs Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 680M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 8 months older Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU) that utilizes 16 pipelines and 128 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Key distinctions and advantages of UHD Graphics (16 EU) over Radeon 680M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 680M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 9.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 9.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.7 vs 0.4 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 12 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 7.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (28K vs 3K)
  • Has 6x more shading units (768 vs 128)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
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-
-
Counter-Strike 2 -
10
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-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 2327 308
Solar Bay 9712 -
Port Royal 1008 -
Fire Strike 6903 1103
Wild Life Extreme 4163 745
Night Raid 27534 4719
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 73.8 img/sec 8.99 img/sec
Face Detection 30.1 img/sec 5.66 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.17 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.17 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.37 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 105 Gpixels/sec 10 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4640 FPS 567.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 723 -
DirectX 11 40 FPS -
DirectX 12 21 FPS -
GPU Compute 2006 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 176 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 12 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 680M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-08 (Wahyu)Geekbench 6 OpenCL26880
Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 1976 406
Image Segmentation (HP) 3138 609
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6693 530
Face Detection (HP) 7213 951
Pose Estimation (Q) 21849 1936
Text Classification (SP) 1497 538
Machine Translation (HP) 2579 542
Object Detection (SP) 2154 451
Depth Estimation (Q) 9635 1237
Style Transfer (SP) 56269 5464
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 680M and Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 1, 2022 May 10, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Rembrandt Tiger Lake Xe
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX Vega 8 -
Successor - Radeon 8050S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H 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
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225
- Intel Core i5 12450HX
- Intel Core i5 14450HX
- Intel Processor N95
- Intel Core i5 13450HX
- Intel Core i5 13500HX
- Intel Core i7 13650HX
- Intel Celeron N5095
- and 3 more
Laptop GPU ranking (104th and 145th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 350 MHz
Boost Clock 2200-2400 MHz (configurable) 750-1550 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 4
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 16
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 12 No
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 3-6 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 106-115 GTexel/s 6-12 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 680M +825%
3.4-3.7 TFLOPS
0.2-0.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 6-15 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 6 nm 10 nm
Die Size 208 mm² -
Transistor Count 13.1 billion -
Transistor Density 62.98 MTr/mm² -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4a

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