NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2022
Apr 2013
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1545 MHz
1006 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1058 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1502 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
192.3GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
2048
1536
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
55.68 GPixel/s
33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
111.4 GTexel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.127 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
7.127 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
111.4 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA107
GK104
GPU Variant
GA107-140-A1
GK104-400-A2
Architecture
Ampere
Kepler
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8.7 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
294 mm²

Board Design

TDP
90W
195W
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
5.1

📊 Benchmark

OctaneBench
175
-
Blender
1,528
-