NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and a Professional market GPU: 12GB VRAM RTX A2000 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1777MHz vs 1200MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (70W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +59%

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX A2000 12 GB

7.987 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +54%

8978

RTX A2000 12 GB

5828

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

RTX A2000 12 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Nov 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

562 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

26

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3328

112

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

104

28

RT Cores

26

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA106

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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