NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 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 10 months late

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

More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +109%

26.73 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +89%

4737

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

2499

OctaneBench

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +74%

492

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

282

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Oct 2022

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2175 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

28

6144

Shading Units

3584

192

TMUs

112

80

ROPs

48

192

Tensor Cores

112

48

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

174.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

417.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

26.73 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

26.73 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA106

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GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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