GeForce RTX 3060 and Tesla A100 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

Tesla A100

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

1110 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

38,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

7936

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

260 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

550.6

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

32 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

2400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

1,229 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

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2