NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (184W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1665MHz vs 1650MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +125%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

8024

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +52%

12265

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +66%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

60

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +50%

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

91

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +51%

138

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

27

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +62%

44

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

34

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +47%

50

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

48

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +60%

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

45

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +64%

74

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

86

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +52%

131

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

117

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +47%

173

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

57

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +15%

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

86

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +18%

102

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +12%

174

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

155

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

34

SM Count

38

2176

Shading Units

4864

136

TMUs

152

48

ROPs

80

272

Tensor Cores

152

34

RT Cores

38

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA104

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.7

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