NVIDIA RTX A400 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

NVIDIA RTX A400

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A400 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 A400 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1777MHz vs 1762MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A400

2.706 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +370%

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX A400

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Jan 2021

Quadro Ampere(Ax000)

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1417 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1762 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

28

768

Shading Units

3584

24

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

24

Tensor Cores

112

6

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.19 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

42.29 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

2.706 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.706 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

42.29 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

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

GA107

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 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

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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