NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1777MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +292%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

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

GA104

GPU Name

GK104

GA104

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

392 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs ATI FirePro V4900

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon Pro V420

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA TITAN V

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 390

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs ATI Radeon HD 3410

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

Related News

1

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

2

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

3

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

4

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

5

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

6

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

7

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

8

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

9

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

10

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip