NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 519.99

$ 229.99

$ 290.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

3468 points

175% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

28 FPS

82 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

41 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

59 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

31 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2038 points

6224 points

205% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

1484.67 points

664% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13627 points

72998 points

435% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

71667 points

337% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

56109 points

243% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

63483 points

244% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

62406 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

1552 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1058 MHz

1777 MHz

67% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

130 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

56.86 Gigapixels/s

67% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.25 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

179% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2560

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 680 vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 680 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 is better than the GeForce GTX 680.