GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
RTX A500 Mobile
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GN20-E3 GA106
GA107
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2021
March 2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1702 MHz
1537 MHz
Core clock speed
817 MHz
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Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)
60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
171.0
98.37
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.0 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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
6.6
Vulkan
1.2
1.3