NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 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 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1057MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+95%
4.329 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2021
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
712 MHz
Base Clock
-
1057 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/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
33.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
67.65 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
4.329 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.329 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
67.65 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
122W
-
-
-
No outputs
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
Unknown
Transistors
3.54 billion
Unknown
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
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
