NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2021
Jan 2020
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1627 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1852 MHz
1185 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
6GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
264.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
30
30
Shading Units
3840
1920
TMUs
120
120
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
120
240
RT Cores
30
30
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
3 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
88.90 GPixel/s
56.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.2 GTexel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
14.22 TFLOPS
9.101 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.22 TFLOPS
4.550 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
222.2 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA106
TU106
GPU Variant
GA106-400-A1
N18E-G1
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
12 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
445 mm²

Board Design

TDP
185W
65W
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