GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 sales 1 September 2021 at a recommended price of $329. This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 12 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.88 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 360.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 242 mm. 1x 12-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 170 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | 38 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2025) | |
| GPU code name | GA104 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 September 2021 (4 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $329 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 3584 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1320 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1777 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 17,400 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 170 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 199.0 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 12.74 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 48 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 112 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Tensor Cores | 112 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 28 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| L1 Cache | 3.5 MB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 3 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 242 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 12-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 12 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1875 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 360.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 8.6 | |
| DLSS | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 is Radeon RX Vega 64.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
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