NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA A2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 16GB VRAM A2 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 5% (1852MHz vs 1770MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +213%

14.22 TFLOPS

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Nov 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

10

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

56.64 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

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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