GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)
3104 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480
1345
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
+847%
12740
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Sep 2021
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
924 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
177.4GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
15
SM Count
28
480
Shading Units
3584
60
TMUs
112
48
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
21.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
42.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
1345 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
168.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
170W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
GA104
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
