GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GK104
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1058 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1006 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,250 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
195 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
135.4
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.3 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
3.0
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2