NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 24GB VRAM A30 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 29% (1852MHz vs 1440MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +37%

14.22 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

192bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

3584

120

TMUs

224

48

ROPs

96

120

Tensor Cores

224

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA100

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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