GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 560 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)
3200 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 560 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+1402%
12740
GeForce GTX 560 OEM
848
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Nov 2011
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 500
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
802 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
320bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.3GB/s
Render Config
28
SM Count
12
3584
Shading Units
384
112
TMUs
48
48
ROPs
40
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
640 KB
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.25 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.50 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
847.9 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
106.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GF110
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-040-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
12 billion
Transistors
3 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
2.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
