NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +3318%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

820 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

52.48GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

128

120

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.60 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G92

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G92-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

135W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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