GeForce GTX 960A and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960A vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GTX 960A
3167
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce GTX 960A
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM107
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
January 2021
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1085 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,389 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
43.40
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
5.0
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2