GeForce G100 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce G100 OEM

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G98

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2009

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

540 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

20.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

4.320

199.0

Memory type

DDR2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

1.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2