NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1852MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +11%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 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

1627 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

30

3584

Shading Units

3840

112

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

120

28

RT Cores

30

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

88.90 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

185W

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

GA106

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

12 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

276 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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