NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (184W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1777MHz vs 1650MHz)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +77%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

34

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

2176

Shading Units

3584

136

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

272

Tensor Cores

112

34

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GA104

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA104

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

184W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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

6.7

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