GeForce GTX 560 Ti and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF114

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2011

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1283 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

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

52.67

153.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2004 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

128.3 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

No outputs

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