NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1852MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +439%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

2.634 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce GTX 670

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1344

120

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK104

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-325-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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