NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1650 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1777MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 128.1GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1650

2.984 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +326%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1650

3596

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +149%

8978

GeForce GTX 1650

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2019

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1485 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.1GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

53.28 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

93.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

5.967 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.984 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

93.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GA104

TU117-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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