NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Price

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$ 519.99

$ 294.49

$ 225.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

8206 points

550% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

192 FPS

163 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

95 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

139 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

75 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2038 points

3149 points

54% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

3690.41 points

1799% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

126840 points

589% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

120026 points

565% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

2280 MHz

126% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1058 MHz

2497 MHz

136% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s

132% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

145 W

34% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

119.9 Gigapixels/s

254% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

299.6 Gigatexels/s

121% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

3840

150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

6% slightly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586

51st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5060 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 680 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 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 5060 over the GeForce GTX 680.