Arc 3 A350M vs GeForce RTX 3060

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking83not rated
Place by popularity4not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation70.78no data
Power efficiency17.88no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGA106DG2-128
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$329 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3584768
Core clock speed1320 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1777 MHz1150 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate199.055.20
Floating-point processing power12.74 TFLOPS1.766 TFLOPS
ROPs4824
TMUs11248
Tensor Cores112no data
Ray Tracing Cores28no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1875 MHz12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth360.0 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 30 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 170 Watt 25 Watt

RTX 3060 has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Arc 3 A350M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 580% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 and Arc 3 A350M. We've got no test results to judge.


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