NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 24GB VRAM RTX 4500 Ada Generation 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

Lower TDP (170W vs 210W)

NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2580MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX 4500 Ada Generation +211%

39.63 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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RTX 4500 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2070 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2580 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

60

3584

Shading Units

7680

112

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

80

112

Tensor Cores

240

28

RT Cores

60

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

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Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

206.4 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

619.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

39.63 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.63 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

619.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

210W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD103

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

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

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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