Jetson Nano 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 evaluation70.78no data
Power efficiency17.88no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGA106GM20B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$329 $99

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 cores3584128
Core clock speed1320 MHz640 MHz
Boost clock speed1777 MHz921 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate199.014.74
Floating-point processing power12.74 TFLOPS0.2358 TFLOPS
ROPs4816
TMUs11216
Tensor Cores112no data
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 2.0 x4
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount12 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1875 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth360.0 GB/s25.6 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan1.31.1
CUDA8.65.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 170 Watt 10 Watt

RTX 3060 has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 150% more advanced lithography process.

Jetson Nano, on the other hand, has 1600% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3060 is a desktop card while Jetson Nano is a notebook one.


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