NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 170W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 7 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G70

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

110 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

108W

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

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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