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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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

Main Differences

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)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +119%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK104

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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