NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 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 10 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

3248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1117%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

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

1002 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

7

3584

Shading Units

336

112

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF114

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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