NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1777MHz vs 1770MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +181%

12.74 TFLOPS

A2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Oct 2022

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/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

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

Unknown

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

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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