GeForce 305M and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 305M vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce 305M
154
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce 305M
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
n11m-lp1
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2010
January 2021
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
525 MHz
1320 MHz
CUDA cores
16
-
Floating-point performance
36.8 gflops
-
Gigaflops
55
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
14 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.200
199.0
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 512 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
11.2 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Power management
8.0
-