TU106 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

TU106

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU106

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

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

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

10,800 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

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

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.5

Vulkan

1.3

1.2

NVENC

7th Gen

-

PureVideo HD

VP10

-