NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra 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 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +3191%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

128

112

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

24

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G80

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

90 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.0

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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