GeForce 940M and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

September 2021

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

199.0

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus