NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1777MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (195W vs 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +117%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

64

3584

Shading Units

8192

112

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

256

28

RT Cores

64

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

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Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA102

GA104

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

628 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

6.7

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