GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs GTX 780 Rev. 2

Place in the ranking	429	107
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.30	no data
Power efficiency	2.95	16.10
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GK110B	GA106
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	10 September 2013 (11 years ago)	12 October 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$649	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	3584
Core clock speed	863 MHz	1320 MHz
Boost clock speed	902 MHz	1777 MHz
Number of transistors	7,080 million	12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	170 Watt
Texture fill rate	173.2	199.0
Floating-point processing power	4.156 TFLOPS	12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	48
TMUs	192	112
Tensor Cores	no data	112
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	28

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm	242 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1502 MHz	1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB/s	240.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	3.5	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	10.78	39.93
Recency	10 September 2013	12 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	170 Watt

RTX 3060 8 GB has a 270.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 47.1% lower power consumption.

The GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.