NV44 A1 and GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 - video card comparison

NV44 A1

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV44 A1

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

75 million

17,400 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

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

PureVideo HD

VP1