AMD Radeon 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 680M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Video outputs and ports, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon 680M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 52% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1777 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
11.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 170 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1777 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 170 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Around 88% higher texture fill rate: 199.0 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
4.7x more pipelines: 3584 vs 768
5.2x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1961 vs 378
3.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 88251 vs 26608

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	199.0 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3584 vs 768
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1961 vs 378
Geekbench - OpenCL	88251 vs 26608

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 680M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

378

1961

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26608

88251

Name	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	378	1961
Geekbench - OpenCL	26608	88251
PassMark - G3D Mark		17107
PassMark - G2D Mark		971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		299.369
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4021.382
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		28.778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		188.944
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1152.664
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		22495
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		22495
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 680M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Code name	Rembrandt	GA106
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating	1232	134
Launch price (MSRP)		$329
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	1777 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)	199.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)	12.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.379 TFLOPS	12.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines	768	3584
Pixel fill rate	70.40 GPixel/s	85.30 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	199.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	170 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	13250 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length		242 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)		450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		1x 12-pin
Width		112 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.2
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.5
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		12 GB
Memory bandwidth		360 GB/s
Memory bus width		192 bit
Memory clock speed		1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective)
Memory type		GDDR6