NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2012
Sep 2021
Generation
GeForce 600
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
915 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1019 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
3584
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
28
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.61 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
130.4 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.130 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
130.4 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
GA104
GPU Variant
GK104-355-A2
GA104-150-KC-A1
Architecture
Kepler
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
170W
Suggested PSU
700 W
450 W
Outputs
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.1
1.3
CUDA
3.0
8.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7