GeForce2 MX 400 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
GeForce2 MX 400
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Celsius (1999−2005)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
NV11 B2
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2001
January 2021
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
200 MHz
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
180 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
20 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
-
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
0.8
199.0
Memory type
SDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
32 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
166 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
2.656 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
7.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
1.2
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2