NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1777MHz vs 1680MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+97%
12.74 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 2060
6.451 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060
+15%
8747
GeForce RTX 2060
7572
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060
+16%
4097
GeForce RTX 2060
3504
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3060
+56%
2181
GeForce RTX 2060
1397
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060
+83%
44
GeForce RTX 2060
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060
+48%
80
GeForce RTX 2060
54
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060
+43%
116
GeForce RTX 2060
81
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060
+15%
30
GeForce RTX 2060
26
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060
+12%
36
GeForce RTX 2060
32
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060
+19%
56
GeForce RTX 2060
47
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060
+27%
55
GeForce RTX 2060
43
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060
+32%
101
GeForce RTX 2060
76
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060
+29%
142
GeForce RTX 2060
110
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060
50
GeForce RTX 2060
+2%
51
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060
+24%
82
GeForce RTX 2060
66
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060
133
GeForce RTX 2060
+9%
146
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Jan 2019
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
1365 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
1680 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
28
SM Count
30
3584
Shading Units
1920
112
TMUs
120
48
ROPs
48
112
Tensor Cores
240
28
RT Cores
30
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
80.64 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
201.6 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.90 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.451 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
201.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
160W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
TU106
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
TU106-200A-KA-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Turing
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
12 nm
12 billion
Transistors
10.8 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
445 mm²
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
7.5
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
