NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
May 2020
Generation
GeForce 30
Tesla Ampere
Type
Desktop
AI GPU
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1410 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
40GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
HBM2e
Memory Bus
128bit
5120bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
1555GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
108
Shading Units
3584
6912
TMUs
112
432
ROPs
48
160
Tensor Cores
112
432
RT Cores
28
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
40 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
609.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
77.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
19.49 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
9.746 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GA100
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
7 nm
Transistors
12 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
400W
Suggested PSU
450 W
800 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
8.6
8.0
Shader Model
6.6
N/A
📊 Benchmark
Blender
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2,186