In the market, you will see many non-gaming laptops with a Ryzen 6000 APU or an entry-level dedicated GPU. Although not all applications require the use of more powerful graphics, it is the case for many of them that they increase their performance with better graphics. Is it possible that an iGPU like the 680M exceed the MX550 What is a Dedicated Chart?
Integrated GPUs have a problem, they are the worst performance that exists, being limited by a series of factors and sometimes even for users with relatively low requirements, it is necessary that they have at least a dedicated graphics card, even s is a very low power. However, the recent upgrade of 680M iGPUs from AMD Ryzen 6000 processors to RDNA 2 has left many entry-level laptop GPUs completely obsolete or without justification for their existence.
AMD 680M (Ryzen 6000) vs. NVIDIA MX550 and 3DMark
It’s no secret that AMD’s APUs, CPUs with integrated GPUs, ended up making a qualitative leap in performance through the use of RDNA2 Architecture. This means that very underperforming dedicated GPUs like the NVIDIA MX550 may no longer have a purpose when it comes to an AMD laptop. More than anything due to the fact that the necessary power is given by the graphics inside the processor, making some entry-level GPUs a useless part.
It’s because of it compare the AMD 680M iGPU with the NVIDIA MX550 it becomes an interesting exercise. This is why several 3DMark benchmarks were run where an i7-1280p, MX 550, Ryzen 5 6600H with an onboard 660M, and an R7-6800H with a 680M were compared. Of all of them, the only external graphics card is that of NVIDIA.
As you can see from the graph above these lines against the MX550, the 680M is a 25% faster in Fire Strike and one 5% and time spy. As for the result at Port Royale, it is better to ignore it since the NVIDIA GPU is not an RTX and does not have the units necessary for Ray Tracing. To underscore the fact that the 660M has similar numbers with the i7-1280p built in, which is a testament to Intel’s good work over the past few years. However, AMD with the update to RDNA 2 is still the queen when it comes to dedicated graphics.
What about gaming performance?
Although these are not graphics processors designed for gaming, they have relative power to play certain titles and synthetic benchmarks are not the performance measurement exercise, but we also have the games themselves .
So the tests were done putting some of the most popular games in Full HD resolution and again comparing the 680M and the MX 550 and you can definitely see that unless you’re using an Intel system, the GPU NVIDIA It has no reason to exist and becomes a useless and meaningless part in a PC with a Ryzen 6000 APU.
This makes it an advantage for AMD in the laptop market that requires performance but isn’t designed for gaming, as it means avoiding the inclusion of NVIDIA’s dedicated GPU. As for Jensen Huang, he does not seem very interested in strengthening his position in this market, especially since he lacks an x86 license and cannot create his own APUs.
