NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2022
Mar 2012
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
GeForce 600
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
622 MHz
1006 MHz
Boost Clock
990 MHz
1058 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
96bit
256bit
Bandwidth
144.0GB/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
31.68 GPixel/s
33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
63.36 GTexel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.055 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.055 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
63.36 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
GK104
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
GPU Variant
-
GK104-400-A2
Board Design
TDP
35W
195W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.175
CUDA
8.6
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)