GeForce 7800 GTX and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7800 GTX vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce 7800 GTX
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G70
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2005
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
430 MHz
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
302 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
86 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.32
199.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 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