NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 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

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +292%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Sep 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

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

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

113.7 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA104

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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 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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