NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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

Released 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1948%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

30

3584

Shading Units

240

112

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GT200

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.3

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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