NVIDIA Tesla T4 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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We compared a Professional market GPU: 16GB VRAM Tesla T4 and a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla T4's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (70W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1777MHz vs 1590MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla T4

8.141 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +56%

12.74 TFLOPS

Tesla T4

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Jan 2021

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

585MHz

Base Clock

1320MHz

1590MHz

Boost Clock

1777MHz

1250MHz

Memory Clock

1875MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

320

Tensor Cores

112

40

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4MB

L2 Cache

3MB

Theoretical Performance

101.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

254.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

65.13 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

8.141 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

254.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GA106

TU104-895-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13,600 million

Transistors

12,000 million

545mm²

Die Size

276mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

170W

250W

Suggested PSU

450W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

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

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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