NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1470MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +108%

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 680

1992

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +142%

4831

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA107

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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