NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 650

0.812 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +1468%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 650

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

384

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.464 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

33.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

812.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

33.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

GA106

GK107-450-A2

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

12 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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