NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

3504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +1409%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

0.942 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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GeForce GTX 460 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

7

3840

Shading Units

336

120

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.814 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.26 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

941.5 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF104

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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