NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1852MHz vs 1695MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +227%

14.22 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

40

30

RT Cores

10

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA107

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

Unknown

276 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

185W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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