P102-100 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	81	not rated
Place by popularity	4	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	71.58	no data
Power efficiency	18.04	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GA106	GP102
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	12 January 2021 (3 years ago)	12 February 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$329	$599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	3584	3200
Core clock speed	1320 MHz	1582 MHz
Boost clock speed	1777 MHz	1683 MHz
Number of transistors	12,000 million	11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	170 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	199.0	336.6
Floating-point processing power	12.74 TFLOPS	10.77 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	80
TMUs	112	200
Tensor Cores	112	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	28	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	PCIe 3.0 x4
Length	242 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	2x 8-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 type	GDDR6	GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	5 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1875 MHz	1376 MHz
Memory bandwidth	360.0 GB/s	440.3 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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.7	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.2.131
CUDA	8.6	6.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 January 2021	12 February 2018
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	5 GB
Chip lithography	8 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	170 Watt	250 Watt

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