GeForce RTX 3060 and A100 PCIe 80 GB - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060
A100 PCIe 80 GB
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Ampere GA106
GA100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2021
June 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
1410 MHz
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
54,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
6912
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
199.0
609.1
Memory type
GDDR6
HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
80 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
5120 Bit
Memory clock speed
15000 MHz
3.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
2,039 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
CUDA
8.6
8.0
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.5
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
N/A