GeForce 7600 GS AGP and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce 7600 GS AGP

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G71

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2006

January 2021

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

500 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

27 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

6.000

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1450 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

23.2 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2