GeForce RTX 3060 vs Tegra X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated81
Place by popularitynot in top-1004
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data71.36
Power efficiencyno data18.10
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGP10BGA106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$329

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 cores2563584
Core clock speed854 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speed1465 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistorsno data12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate23.44199.0
Floating-point processing power0.7501 TFLOPS12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs16112
Tensor Coresno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared12 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1875 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data360.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 16 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 170 Watt

Tegra X2 has 1033.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060, on the other hand, has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tegra X2 and GeForce RTX 3060. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Tegra X2
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