NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1425MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
+395%
10.94 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Oct 2012
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
-
1425 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/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
68.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
171.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
10.94 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.94 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
171.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
60-115W
TDP
122W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-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
