NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Feb 2024
Generation
GeForce 30
Quadro Ada
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1620 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
2130 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
22
Shading Units
3584
2816
TMUs
112
88
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
112
88
RT Cores
28
22
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
12 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
102.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
187.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
12.00 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
12.00 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
187.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
AD107
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
12 billion
18.9 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
159 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
70W
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
8.9
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
8,147
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
3,601
OctaneBench
-
295
3DMark Speed Way
-
1,970
Blender
-
2,649