NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1125MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 122W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB +108%

4.608 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

2.209 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

757 MHz

Base Clock

-

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

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

36.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.01 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.03 GTexel/s

4.608 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.608 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.209 TFLOPS

72.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

92.03 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK104

-

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX2-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

Board Design

35W

TDP

122W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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