NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +4063%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GT 720

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

192

112

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK208B

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.5

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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