GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce RTX 3060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
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 GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
GeForce RTX 3060
+292%
12740
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
28
1536
Shading Units
3584
128
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
170W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 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 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA106
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GA106-300-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
12 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
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
