NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points
259% significantly better overall score
1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS
83 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
59 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points
1111% significantly higher Blender score
194.26 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points
624% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
13627 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points
464% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
16368 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points
335% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
16340 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points
357% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
18409 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points
359% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz
1006 MHz
11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz
60% significantly higher boost clock speed
1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB
49% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
74% significantly higher memory bandwidth
192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W
143% significantly lower TDP
195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s
102% significantly higher pixel rate
33.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s
26% slightly higher texture rate
135.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS
236% significantly better floating point performance
3.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
150% significantly more shading units
1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
128
6% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 593
250th of 593

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

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