GeForce GTX 560 Ti and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF114

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

822 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,263.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

52.67

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2004 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

128.3 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

2.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3