NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1710MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (195W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +816%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

-

8704

Shading Units

1536

272

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

5 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

195W

700 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

GA102

GPU Name

GK104

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

628 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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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