GeForce 7600 GS and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

GeForce 7600 GS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G73

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2006

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

400 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

177 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

27 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

4.800

199.0

Memory type

DDR2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3