NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 Clock has increased by 1% (1777MHz vs 1755MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +57%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

18

3584

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

72

28

RT Cores

18

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA106

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

392 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

6.6

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