NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX A400

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 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 1% (1777MHz vs 1762MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +370%

12.74 TFLOPS

RTX A400

2.706 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

RTX A400

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

727 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1762 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

24

28

RT Cores

6

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.19 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.29 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.706 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.706 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.29 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA107

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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