NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 205 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

3568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +28211%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 205 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce 205 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

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

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

2

3584

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

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

2.356 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

31W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GT218

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GT218-200-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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