GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 185W)
GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1852MHz vs 1680MHz)
1920 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2060
6451
GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
+120%
14220
Graphics Card
Jan 2019
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1365 MHz
Base Clock
1627 MHz
1680 MHz
Boost Clock
1852 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
30
SM Count
30
1920
Shading Units
3840
120
TMUs
120
48
ROPs
48
240
Tensor Cores
120
30
RT Cores
30
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
80.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
88.90 GPixel/s
201.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
222.2 GTexel/s
12.90 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
14.22 TFLOPS
6.451 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.22 TFLOPS
201.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
222.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
185W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
TU106
GPU Name
GA106
TU106-200A-KA-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-400-A1
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
10.8 billion
Transistors
12 billion
445 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
