NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +2037%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

240

112

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

28

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.08 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GT200B

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-401-B3

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

289W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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