NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (70W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB 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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A2000 12 GB

7.987 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +59%

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX A2000 12 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Sep 2021

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 30

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

562 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

26

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

3328

Shading Units

3584

104

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

104

Tensor Cores

112

26

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

7.987 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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