NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 48GB VRAM RTX 5880 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 285W)

NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (2460MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

10496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX 5880 Ada Generation +443%

69.27 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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RTX 5880 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

975 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

864.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

110

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

14080

112

TMUs

440

64

ROPs

176

112

Tensor Cores

440

28

RT Cores

110

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

433.0 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1082 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

69.27 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

69.27 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1082 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD102

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

AD102

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

285W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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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