NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA RTX A400

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2021
Apr 2024
Generation
GeForce 30
Quadro Ampere(Ax000)
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1320 MHz
1417 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1762 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
64bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
96.00GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
28
6
Shading Units
3584
768
TMUs
112
24
ROPs
64
16
Tensor Cores
112
24
RT Cores
28
6
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
28.19 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
42.29 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.706 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.706 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
42.29 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA104
GA107
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
8.7 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
170W
50W
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
8.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.8