GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX A400 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

RTX A400

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

April 2024

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

1762 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

768

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

42.29

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3