GeForce RTX 3060 and Atari VCS 800 GPU - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

Atari VCS 800 GPU

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

Banded Kestrel

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

December 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

1201 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

4,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

192

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

14.41

Memory type

GDDR6

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

38.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.4

Vulkan

1.2