NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 TU116

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 TU116

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1650 TU116 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 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1777MHz vs 1590MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 TU116 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +347%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1650 TU116

2.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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GeForce GTX 1650 TU116

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jul 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1590 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

896

112

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

50.88 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.04 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.699 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.849 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU116

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

80W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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