3D Rage II and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

3D Rage II

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Mach (1992−1997)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Mach64 GT-B

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 1996

January 2021

Interface

PCI

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

60 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

500 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.06

199.0

Memory type

SDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

83 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

664.0 MB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x VGA

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

5.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2