GeForce4 MX 420 PCI and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce4 MX 420 PCI

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV17 A3

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2002

January 2021

Interface

PCI

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

250 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

29 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.000

199.0

Memory type

SDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

166 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1.328 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

8.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.3

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2