NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock 1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

-

1777MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875MHz

Memory Clock

600MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40 GB/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

-

3MB

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

G71

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

90 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

278 million

276mm²

Die Size

196mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

65W

450W

Suggested PSU

250W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

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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