NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

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)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G71

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

90 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.278 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

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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