NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2013
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 600
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1006 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
3584
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
SM Count
—
28
Tensor Cores
—
112
RT Cores
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
GA106
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
GA106-300-A1
Architecture
Kepler
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
12 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
170W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.1
1.3
CUDA
3.0
8.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
8,747
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
4,097
3DMark Speed Way
—
2,181
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
142
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
44
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
80
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
—
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
116
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
55
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
—
56
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
101
GTA 5 2160p
—
50
GTA 5 1440p
—
82
GTA 5 1080p
—
133
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.