NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 745 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +1506%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 745 OEM

0.793 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.53 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.79 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

793.3 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.79 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GM107

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM107-220-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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