Riva TNT and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Riva TNT

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Fahrenheit (1998−2000)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV4

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 1998

January 2021

Interface

AGP 2x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

90 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

350 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

-

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.18

199.0

Memory type

SDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

110 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1.76 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x VGA

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

5.0

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