NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Dec 2021
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 20
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1470 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
34
Shading Units
3584
2176
TMUs
112
136
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
112
272
RT Cores
28
34
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
79.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
224.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
14.36 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
7.181 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
224.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
TU106
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
TU106-300-KA-A1
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
184W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 8-pin
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
6.6
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
8,935
8,024
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,231
3,697
3DMark Speed Way
—
1,572
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
60
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
91
Blender
—
1,893
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.