NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 is a fast desktop graphics card. It is based on the GA106 Ampere chip and offers 12 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a 192 Bit memory bus. It offers 3,584 cores and supports PCIe 4.0.

The performance is similar to the older GeForce RTX 2070 and therefore best suited for 1080p gaming of modern and demanding games in high settings.

The GA106 chip offers 3,840 FP32 ALUs of which half can also execute INT32 instructions (i.e. 1,920 INT32 ALUs). With Turing all shaders could still execute FP32 or INT32 instructions. The raytracing and tensor cores on the chip were also improved according to Nvidia. The Ampere chips also include an improved 5th generation video encoder (NVENC for H.264 and H.265) and a 7th generation decoder (for various formats now including AV1).

The GA106 chip is manufactured by Samsung in 8nm (8N), which is not quite able to keep up with the 7nm node at TSMC (e.g. used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip). The TDP of the RTX 3060 is specified at 170 Watt and therefore slightly higher than the previous RTX 2060 (160 Watt).

Manufacturer	NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 3000 Series	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 10496 @ 1.4 - 1.7 GHz 384 Bit @ 19500 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 10240 @ 1.37 - 1.67 GHz 384 Bit @ 19000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 8704 @ 1.45 - 1.71 GHz 320 Bit @ 19000 MHz GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU 7424 @ 0.98 - 1.59 GHz 256 Bit @ 14000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 5888 @ 1.5 - 1.73 GHz 256 Bit @ 14000 MHz GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU 6144 @ 0.78 - 1.25 GHz 256 Bit @ 14000 MHz GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU 5888 @ 0.92 - 1.49 GHz 256 Bit @ 14000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 4864 @ 1.41 - 1.67 GHz 256 Bit @ 14000 MHz GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU 5120 @ 0.78 - 1.29 GHz 256 Bit @ 14000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3584 @ 1.32 - 1.78 GHz 192 Bit @ 1875 MHz GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q 6144 @ 0.78 - 1.25 GHz 256 Bit @ 6000 MHz GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q 5120 @ 1.29 GHz 256 Bit GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU 3840 @ 0.9 - 1.28 GHz 192 Bit @ 14000 MHz GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q 3840 @ 1.28 GHz 192 Bit GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU 2560 @ 1.22 - 1.49 GHz 128 Bit @ 12000 MHz GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU 2048 @ 1.24 - 1.5 GHz 128 Bit
Codename	Ampere GA106
Architecture	Ampere
Pipelines	3584 - unified
Core Speed	1320 - 1777 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed	1875 MHz
Memory Bus Width	192 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory	12288 MB
Shared Memory	no
DirectX	DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.6
Transistor Count	13250 Million
technology	8 nm
Date of Announcement	12.01.2021

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