NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

3472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +3691%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

112

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G92

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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