NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

3360 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +957%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

30

480

Shading Units

3840

60

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA106

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GA106-400-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

6.7

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