NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 605 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce 605 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 605 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 14.35GB/s)

3536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 605 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +12640%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 605 OEM

0.1 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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GeForce 605 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

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

897 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.35GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF119

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GF119-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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