GeForce GTX 960 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM206

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2015

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1201 MHz

1702 MHz

Core clock speed

924 MHz

817 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,460 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

76.86

171.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

7012 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2