NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

3440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +2969%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

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

800 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

3

3584

Shading Units

144

112

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

24

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.28 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF116

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF116-150-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

238 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

2.1

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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