NV34 A2 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

NV34 A2

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV34 A2

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0a

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2