NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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 GTX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1069%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

336

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

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

85.30 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

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

GA106

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

12 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

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 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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