NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Jan 2013
Generation
GeForce 30
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
1792
TMUs
112
112
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
103.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
828.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
200W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.7
5.1