NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA RTX A400

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA RTX A400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 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

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1777MHz vs 1762MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +370%

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX A400

2.706 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

RTX A400

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ampere(Ax000)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1417 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1762 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

6

3584

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

24

28

RT Cores

6

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.19 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.29 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.706 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.706 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.29 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA107

GA104

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

200 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

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.8

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