NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 4% (1852MHz vs 1777MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (170W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +11%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

3584

120

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

120

Tensor Cores

112

30

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA106

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

12 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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