NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA P104 100

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA P104 100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM P104 100 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 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA P104 100 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +91%

12.74 TFLOPS

P104 100

6.655 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

P104 100

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1920

112

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

208.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

104.0 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.655 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

208.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP104

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-100-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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