NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

3248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +1304%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 400

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

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

28

336

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

112

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

GA104

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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