NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 6 GB 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 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (1777MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +206%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

863 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GK110B

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GK110-301-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.5

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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