NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (2130MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (70W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +6%

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

12 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

1620MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

2130MHz

1875MHz

Memory Clock

2000MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

88

28

RT Cores

22

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3MB

L2 Cache

12MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.00 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.00 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

187.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD107

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

18,900 million

276mm²

Die Size

159mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

70W

450W

Suggested PSU

250W

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

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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