NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2021
Oct 2022
Generation
GeForce 20
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1470 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1650 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
34
28
Shading Units
2176
3584
TMUs
136
112
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
272
112
RT Cores
34
28
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
79.20 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
224.4 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
14.36 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.181 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
224.4 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU106
GA106
GPU Variant
TU106-300-KA-A1
GA106-302-A1
Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
12 nm
8 nm
Transistors
10.8 billion
12 billion
Die Size
445 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
184W
170W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 12-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
7.5
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
8,024
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,697
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3DMark Speed Way
1,572
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
60
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
91
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Blender
1,893
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