GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1282MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2209
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+345%
9846
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
817 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
30
1536
Shading Units
3840
128
TMUs
120
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA106
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
-
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
