NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +3191%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1080 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

103.7GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

128

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

96 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

14.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

39.17 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

GA104

G80-450-A3

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

90 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.0

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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