NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 170W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 7 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G70

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

110 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

108W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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