NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Feb 2024
Mar 2012
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1042 MHz
1006 MHz
Boost Clock
1470 MHz
1058 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
96bit
256bit
Bandwidth
168.0GB/s
192.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
18
-
Shading Units
2304
1536
TMUs
72
128
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
72
-
RT Cores
18
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
47.04 GPixel/s
33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
105.8 GTexel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.774 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
6.774 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
105.8 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
GK104
GPU Variant
GA107-325-K2-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
70W
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
None
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.2.175
CUDA
8.6
3.0
Shader Model
6.8
6.5 (5.1)
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
4,853
-
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
2,182
-
3DMark Speed Way
1,123
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