NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

4624 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +2504%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Feb 2022

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

38

240

Shading Units

4864

80

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA103S

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

576 mm²

Die Size

496 mm²

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

6.5

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