NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1069%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 500

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

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

28

336

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

GA104

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Fermi 2.0

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

6.7

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