NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1777MHz vs 928MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +138%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

5.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

875MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

928MHz

1875MHz

Memory Clock

1753MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2880

112

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3MB

L2 Cache

1536KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.7 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.345 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK180

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK180-425-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

7,080 million

276mm²

Die Size

561mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450W

Suggested PSU

600W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.175

8.6

CUDA

3.5

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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