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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 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 6 GB 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock990MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 122W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB
+83%
4.055 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
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
622 MHz
Base Clock
-
990 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
96bit
Memory Bus
256bit
144.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/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
31.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
63.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
4.055 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.055 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
63.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
122W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
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
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
