NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1777MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +292%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK104

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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