NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA A16 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 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 12GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1777MHz vs 1695MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +193%

12.74 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2021

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

40

Tensor Cores

112

10

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA104

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GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

17.4 billion

Unknown

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

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

6.6

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