NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)
3104 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+847%
12.74 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 480
1.345 TFLOPS
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
1320 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
924 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
177.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
28
SM Count
15
3584
Shading Units
480
112
TMUs
60
48
ROPs
48
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1345 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
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 Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GF100
GA106-300-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
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
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
