NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1081%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

28

512

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA106

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

12 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

276 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

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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