GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
TU106B
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2019
October 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1200 MHz
1777 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
10,800 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
144.0
199.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
10824 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
259.8 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
7.5
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.140
1.3