NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 OEM 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 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1402%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

12

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

48

ROPs

40

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.25 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.50 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

106.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF110

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-040-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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