GeForce RTX 3060 and Arc A780 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

Arc A780

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Generation 12.7 (2022)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

DG2-512

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

2200 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

21,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

563.2

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

17.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

559.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0

HDMI

+

+

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

-

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

1.3