NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1777MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +110%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

2816

Shading Units

3584

176

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GA104

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

601 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

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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