NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA A16 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1852MHz vs 1695MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +227%

14.22 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2021

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

3840

40

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

40

Tensor Cores

120

10

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

Unknown

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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