NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 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 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +14055%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 100

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

800 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

4

3584

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G96C

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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