GeForce RTX 3060 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

Switch GPU

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

768 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

256

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

12.29

Memory type

GDDR6

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

5.3

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.4

Vulkan

1.2

1.1.126