H100 PCIe 80 GB vs GeForce RTX 3060

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking83not rated
Place by popularity4not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation70.80no data
Power efficiency17.88no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Hopper (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGA106GH100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores358414592
Core clock speed1320 MHz1095 MHz
Boost clock speed1777 MHz1755 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million80,000 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Watt350 Watt
Texture fill rate199.0800.3
Floating-point processing power12.74 TFLOPS51.22 TFLOPS
ROPs4824
TMUs112456
Tensor Cores112456
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 5.0 x16
Length242 mm268 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin1x 16-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 typeGDDR6HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount12 GB80 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed1875 MHz1593 MHz
Memory bandwidth360.0 GB/s2,039 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)N/A
Shader Model6.7N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.69.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 80 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 170 Watt 350 Watt

RTX 3060 has 105.9% lower power consumption.

H100 PCIe 80 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 566.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 and H100 PCIe 80 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3060 is a desktop card while H100 PCIe 80 GB is a workstation one.


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