NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +18%

8760

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

7392

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

44

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +2%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

80

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +6%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

116

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +13%

132

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +3%

30

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

29

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +2%

36

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

35

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +1%

56

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

55

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +3%

55

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

53

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +3%

101

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +1%

142

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

140

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +64%

82

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

82

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +15%

154

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

112

28

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA106

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

12 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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