NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Oct 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
924 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1038 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
120.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
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Shading Units
3584
1280
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
64
48
Tensor Cores
112
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RT Cores
28
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
83.04 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GM204
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
N16E-GT-A2
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.7 (6.4)
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.