GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and Radeon 680M - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Radeon 680M

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GA104

RDNA 2 Rembrandt

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

September 2021

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

2400 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

13,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

768

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

45 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

115.2

Memory type

GDDR6

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

192 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

15 GB/s

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.5

Vulkan

1.2