NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1627 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1852 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
30
Shading Units
3584
3840
TMUs
112
120
ROPs
64
48
Tensor Cores
112
120
RT Cores
28
30
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
88.90 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
222.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
14.22 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
14.22 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
222.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GA106
GPU Variant
GA104
GA106-400-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
12 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
185W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-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
8.6
8.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.7