NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +7862%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

799 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

8

3584

Shading Units

64

112

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

160.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

105W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G92

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

324 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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