NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1777MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (160W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +97%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

30

3584

Shading Units

1920

112

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

240

28

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

160W

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 Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU106

GA104

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

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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