NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

3104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +847%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 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

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

28

480

Shading Units

3584

60

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

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

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

GA104

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

529 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

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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