NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 136% (2497MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060
+490%
19.18 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Apr 2013
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2280 MHz
Base Clock
1006 MHz
2497 MHz
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
-
3840
Shading Units
1536
120
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
120
Tensor Cores
-
30
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
119.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
19.18 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
19.18 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
195W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
GK104
GB206-250-A1
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.1
12.0
CUDA
3.0
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
