NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 170W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 15 years late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
3472 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+3691%
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
28
112
Shading Units
3584
56
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
170W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GA106
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
65 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
12 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
