Riva TNT2 vs GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	1519
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code name	GA106	NV5
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	2021 (3 years ago)	12 October 1999 (25 years ago)

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 cores	3840	no data
Core clock speed	1627 MHz	125 MHz
Boost clock speed	1852 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	12,000 million	15 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	185 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	222.2	0.25
Floating-point processing power	14.22 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	48	2
TMUs	120	2
Tensor Cores	120	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	30	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	None

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 type	GDDR6	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	16 MB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	150 MHz
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	2.4 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x VGA
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	6.0
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	8.6	-

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	16 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	250 nm

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