NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

3360 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +957%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

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

924 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

480

120

TMUs

60

48

ROPs

48

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF100

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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