NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 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 RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (1777MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +206%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

2304

Shading Units

3584

192

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

GA104

GK110-300-B1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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