GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GK104

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2012

October 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

719 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,209 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,540 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

122 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

92.03

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

3.0

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3