NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 24GB VRAM A30 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 23% (1777MHz vs 1440MHz)

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +23%

12.74 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

192bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

56

3584

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

224

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GA100

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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