NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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 1 years and 1 months late

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

28

3584

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

112

28

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA104

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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