GeForce GTX 460 X2 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 460 X2

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF104

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2011

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

701 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 941.5 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

160 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.26

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

2.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2