NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1740MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +119%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

1536

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

90W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA107

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GA107-140-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

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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