NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation 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 RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (2130MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (70W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

12 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +6%

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Sep 2021

Quadro Ada

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1620 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2130 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

22

SM Count

28

2816

Shading Units

3584

88

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

88

Tensor Cores

112

22

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

102.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

187.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

12.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

12.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

187.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA104

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GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

159 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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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