NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 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 12% (1852MHz vs 1650MHz)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (184W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +98%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

34

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

2176

120

TMUs

136

48

ROPs

48

120

Tensor Cores

272

30

RT Cores

34

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU106

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

184W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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