NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 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

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2505MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

14592 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +614%

91.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Dec 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

142

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

18176

112

TMUs

568

48

ROPs

192

112

Tensor Cores

568

28

RT Cores

142

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

481.0 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1423 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

91.06 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.06 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1423 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD102

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD102

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

12 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

608 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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