NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1777MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (115W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
3.25 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107
+179%
9.098 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 680
2004
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107
+268%
7384
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1552 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
20
1536
Shading Units
2560
128
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
115W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA107
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GA107-150-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
Unknown
294 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
6.6
