NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2550MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

9216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +412%

65.28 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation

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GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

Quadro Ada

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1155 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2550 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

100

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

12800

Shading Units

3584

400

TMUs

112

176

ROPs

48

400

Tensor Cores

112

100

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

448.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

1020 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

65.28 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

65.28 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1020 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA106

AD102

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600 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 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

6.6

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