Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2021 Jun 2015
Generation GeForce 30 GeForce 900
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1320 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1777 MHz 1076 MHz
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 12GB 6GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 192bit 384bit
Bandwidth 360.0GB/s 336.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 28
Shading Units 3584 2816
TMUs 112 176
ROPs 48 96
Tensor Cores 112
RT Cores 28
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 3 MB 3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 85.30 GPixel/s 103.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 199.0 GTexel/s 189.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 12.74 TFLOPS 6.060 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 199.0 GFLOPS 189.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA106 GM200
GPU Variant GA106-300-A1 GM200-310-A1
Architecture Ampere Maxwell 2.0
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Process Size 8 nm 28 nm
Transistors 12 billion 8 billion
Die Size 276 mm² 601 mm²
Board Design
TDP 170W 250W
Suggested PSU 450 W 600 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.4
CUDA 8.6 5.2
Shader Model 6.6 6.8
Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy 8747 5789
3DMark Time Spy Extreme 4097 2807
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p 44 24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p 80 45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p 116 75
GTA 5 2160p 50 72
GTA 5 1440p 82 74
GTA 5 1080p 133 120