NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Ti 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 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1777MHz vs 928MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti

5.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +138%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 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

875 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

928 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

2880

Shading Units

3584

240

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

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

222.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.345 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

222.7 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

GK110-425-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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs AMD FirePro S9100

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs AMD Radeon Pro 5700

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs AMD FirePro R5000

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs NVIDIA TITAN Ada

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game