NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1852MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +337%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

1536

120

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK104

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

276 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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