NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 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

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +292%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 680

1999

GeForce RTX 3060 +339%

8780

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 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

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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

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

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