GeForce Go 6400 vs RTX 3060

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking81not rated
Place by popularity4not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation71.60no data
Power efficiency18.03no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameGA106NV44 A2
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)1 February 2006 (18 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 cores35847
Core clock speed1320 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1777 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million75 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Wattno data
Texture fill rate199.01.600
Floating-point processing power12.74 TFLOPSno data
ROPs482
TMUs1124
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 1.0 x16
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
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 typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount12 GB32 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1875 MHz350 MHz
Memory bandwidth360.0 GB/s5.6 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)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.73.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.6-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RTX 3060 17085
+71088%
Go 6400 24

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 1 February 2006
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 8 nm 110 nm

RTX 3060 has an age advantage of 14 years, a 38300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce Go 6400. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3060 is a desktop card while GeForce Go 6400 is a notebook one.


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