NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs Intel Arc A380

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 Intel Arc A380

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 6GB VRAM Arc A380 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

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 186.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A380 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (2050MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +203%

12.74 TFLOPS

Arc A380

4.198 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Arc A380

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jun 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2050 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

186.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

128

28

RT Cores

8

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.60 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.397 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.198 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

DG2-128

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.7

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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