Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2019 Jan 2021
Generation GeForce 20 GeForce 30
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1365 MHz 1627 MHz
Boost Clock 1680 MHz 1852 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 6GB 6GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Bus 192bit 192bit
Bandwidth 336.0GB/s 336.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 30 30
Shading Units 1920 3840
TMUs 120 120
ROPs 48 48
Tensor Cores 240 120
RT Cores 30 30
L1 Cache 64 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 3 MB 3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 80.64 GPixel/s 88.90 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 201.6 GTexel/s 222.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 12.90 TFLOPS 14.22 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 6.451 TFLOPS 14.22 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 201.6 GFLOPS 222.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name TU106 GA106
GPU Variant TU106-200A-KA-A1 GA106-400-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 160W 185W
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 6.8 6.7