NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1777MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

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

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +97%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060

7483

GeForce RTX 3060 +17%

8780

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

24

GeForce RTX 3060 +83%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

54

GeForce RTX 3060 +48%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060

81

GeForce RTX 3060 +43%

116

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

26

GeForce RTX 3060 +15%

30

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

32

GeForce RTX 3060 +12%

36

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060

47

GeForce RTX 3060 +19%

56

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

43

GeForce RTX 3060 +27%

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

76

GeForce RTX 3060 +32%

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060

110

GeForce RTX 3060 +29%

142

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +2%

51

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

66

GeForce RTX 3060 +24%

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +9%

146

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

28

1920

Shading Units

3584

120

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

240

Tensor Cores

112

30

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

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

TU106-200A-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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