NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA PG506 242
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Apr 2021
Generation
GeForce 30
Tesla
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
930 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1440 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
HBM2
Memory Bus
128bit
3072bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
933.1GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
56
Shading Units
3584
3584
TMUs
112
224
ROPs
48
96
Tensor Cores
112
224
RT Cores
28
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
24 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
138.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
5.161 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GA100
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
7 nm
Transistors
12 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
165W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
8.6
8.0
Shader Model
6.6
N/A
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.