GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

CORE STATE GK104

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1058 MHz

TDP 195 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1755 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

6,987

N/A

geekbench_opencl

16,803

60,740

geekbench_vulkan

17,646

57,103

passmark_directx_10

N/A

61

passmark_directx_11

N/A

86

passmark_directx_12

N/A

58

passmark_directx_9

N/A

137

passmark_g2d

N/A

973

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,857

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

5,779

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 680

RTX 3050 OEM

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

2,304 +50.0%

Shaders

1,536

2,304 +50.0%

TMUs

128

72 -43.8%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

SM Count

—

18

Clocks

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1515 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1755 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

56.16 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.250 TFLOPS

8.087 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

135.4 GFLOPS (1:24)

126.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

8.087 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

18

Tensor Cores

—

72

Power

TDP

195 W

130 W

TDP (W)

195

130 -33.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Kepler

Ampere

GPU Name

GK104

GA106

Generation

GeForce 600

GeForce 30

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

3,540 million

12,000 million

Die Size

294 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.0M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.175

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

3.0

8.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

256 mm 10.1 inches

242 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

499 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 500

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

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