NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 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 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1852MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +354%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1536

120

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK104

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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