NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA L20

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA L20

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 48GB VRAM L20 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

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

NVIDIA L20 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

L20 +365%

59.35 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

L20

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Nov 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

864.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

92

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

11776

112

TMUs

368

64

ROPs

128

112

Tensor Cores

368

28

RT Cores

92

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

927.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

59.35 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

59.35 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

927.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD102

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

AD102

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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