NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1777MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +417%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

170W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA104

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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