NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1777MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +427%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +294%

9002

GeForce GTX 960

2283

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM206

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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