NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1470MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +108%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +142%

4838

GeForce GTX 680

1999

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK104

GA107-325-K2-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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