GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104: specs and benchmarks
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 | 51 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | GA104 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 September 2021 (3 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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1320 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1777 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 17,400 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 170 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 199.0 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 12.74 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 48 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 112 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 112 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 28 | of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1875 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 360.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
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 compatibility
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 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 is Radeon RX Vega 64.
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