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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Geforce GTX 680

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 features a GPU core speed of 1552 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM runs at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 680, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1006 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1502 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1536 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050 130 Watts
Geforce GTX 680 195 Watts
Difference: 65 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3050 will be 19% faster than the Geforce GTX 680 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680 192256 MB/sec
Difference: 37120 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be a bit (approximately 4%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680 128768 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 124160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4608 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is superior to the Geforce GTX 680, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 49664 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 680 32192 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 17472 (54%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3050 Geforce GTX 680
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year January 2022 March 2012
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 GK104
Memory 8192 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 1006 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 6008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 195 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 192256 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 128768 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 32192 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 1536
Texture Mapping Units 80 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 28 nm
Transistors 12000 million 3540 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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