GeForce GT 720 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 720
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GK208B
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
September 2021
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
797 MHz
-
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
306.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
170 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
12.75
199.0
Memory type
DDR3 / GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB or 1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
360.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
3 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-