NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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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$ 868.99

$ 519.99

$ 349.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points

1024% significantly better overall score

1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

342 FPS

314 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS

151 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS

226 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19628 points

863% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2038 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points

2772% significantly higher Blender score

194.26 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

235513 points

1628% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13627 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

209081 points

1177% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131975 points

707% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points

942% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18409 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points

860% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

57% 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

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

912.4 GB/s

374% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

195 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s

450% significantly higher pixel rate

33.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s

293% significantly higher texture rate

135.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.1 TFLOPS

949% significantly better floating point performance

3.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

566% significantly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

150% significantly more texture mapping units

128

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

22nd of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

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 3080 Ti vs GeForce GTX 680 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 680 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 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 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 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 3080 Ti at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 680.