GeForce RTX 3060 vs 7600 GT Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated83
Place by popularitynot in top-1004
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data70.78
Power efficiencyno data17.88
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameG73BGA106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 September 2006 (18 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 coresno data3584
Core clock speed560 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1777 MHz
Number of transistors177 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate6.720199.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs12112
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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s360.0 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 Connectors2x DVI1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.7
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 September 2006 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 170 Watt

7600 GT Mac Edition has 325% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3060. We've got no test results to judge.


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