GeForce GTX 960M and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960M
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
GA104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
September 2021
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-