NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe 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

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1777MHz vs 1695MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +193%

12.74 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

10

3584

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

40

28

RT Cores

10

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA107

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

392 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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