NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 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 RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1777MHz vs 1650MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +77%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

8024

GeForce RTX 3060 +9%

8780

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3060 +46%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

60

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

91

GeForce RTX 3060 +27%

116

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

27

GeForce RTX 3060 +11%

30

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

34

GeForce RTX 3060 +5%

36

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

48

GeForce RTX 3060 +16%

56

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

45

GeForce RTX 3060 +22%

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

86

GeForce RTX 3060 +17%

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

117

GeForce RTX 3060 +21%

142

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +14%

57

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +4%

86

GeForce RTX 3060

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +30%

174

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

34

SM Count

28

2176

Shading Units

3584

136

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

272

Tensor Cores

112

34

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GA106

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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