GeForce RTX 3060 vs Tesla K40s

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated83
Place by popularitynot in top-1004
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data70.78
Power efficiencyno data17.88
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGK110BGA106
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date22 November 2013 (11 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$7,699 $329

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 cores28803584
Core clock speed745 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speed876 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors7,080 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)245 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate210.2199.0
Floating-point processing power5.046 TFLOPS12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs4848
TMUs240112
Tensor Coresno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB12 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.4 GB/s360.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 November 2013 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 245 Watt 170 Watt

RTX 3060 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 44.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K40s and GeForce RTX 3060. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla K40s is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 3060 is a desktop one.


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