NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 519.99

$ 979.96 significantly less expensive

$ 1499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

16207 points

1185% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

382 FPS

354 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

188 FPS

170 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

275 FPS

256 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

151 FPS

137 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 680 and the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2038 points

21929 points

976% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

6069.41 points

3024% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13627 points

260346 points

1810% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

229738 points

1303% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

141134 points

763% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

207329 points

1026% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

187369 points

939% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

1560 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1058 MHz

1560 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

24 GiB

499% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

1008 GB/s

424% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

130% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

208.3 Gigapixels/s

515% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

625 Gigatexels/s

361% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.25 TFLOPS

40 TFLOPS

1130% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

10752

599% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

336

162% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586

16th 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

GDDR6X

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 3090 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 680 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti has significantly more memory with 24 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 GTX 680 has a significantly lower TDP at 195 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti over the GeForce GTX 680.