NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Mar 2020
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1125 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
352.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
36
Shading Units
3584
2304
TMUs
112
144
ROPs
64
64
Tensor Cores
112
288
RT Cores
28
36
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
72.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
162.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
10.37 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
5.184 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
162.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
TU106B
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
445 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
115W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
7.5
Shader Model
6.7
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.