NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (2175MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 12GB)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +109%

26.73 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

160bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

48

3584

Shading Units

6144

112

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

80

112

Tensor Cores

192

28

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

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Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD104

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 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

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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