NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (990MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +98%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

1344

64

TMUs

112

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

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK104

-

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-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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