NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 235.82 significantly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

318% significantly better overall score

1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

330% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2038 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

1092% significantly higher Blender score

194.26 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

628% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13627 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

489% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

358% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

386% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18409 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

378% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

67% significantly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

200% 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

360 GB/s

87% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

14% slightly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

151% significantly higher pixel rate

33.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

46% significantly higher texture rate

135.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

291% significantly better floating point performance

3.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

133% significantly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

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

98th of 586

246th of 586

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

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 680 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 680 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 680.