NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1948%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA104

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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