GeForce 945A and GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce 945A
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM108
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
September 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1189 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
-
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.54
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
40.1 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
5.0
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2