NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +1081%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

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

700 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

16

3584

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF100

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

529 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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