Intel Arc A780 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Intel Arc A780

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arc A780 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A780 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (2200MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A780 +41%

18.02 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

Arc A780

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2021

Alchemist(Arc 7)

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2200 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2200 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1093 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

559.6GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

4096

Shading Units

3584

256

TMUs

112

128

ROPs

48

512

Tensor Cores

112

32

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

16 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

281.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

563.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

36.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GA106

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

406 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

-

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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