NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

6912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1777MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +179%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

82

SM Count

28

10496

Shading Units

3584

328

TMUs

112

ROPs

64

328

Tensor Cores

112

82

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA104

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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