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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB is a Desktop video accelerator from NVIDIA. It began to be released in October 2022. The GPU has a boost frequency of 1777MHz. It also has a memory frequency of 1875MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

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Basic

Label Name
NVIDIA
Platform
Desktop
Launch Date
October 2022
Model Name
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Generation
GeForce 30
Base Clock
1320MHz
Boost Clock
1777MHz
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
3584
SM Count
?
Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.
28
Transistors
12,000 million
RT Cores
28
Tensor Cores
?
Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.
112
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
112
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3MB
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Foundry
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
Architecture
Ampere
TDP
170W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
128bit
Memory Clock
1875MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
240.0 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
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Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
199.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
12.236 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
OpenCL Version
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
48
Shader Model
6.6
Suggested PSU
450W

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

46 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

85 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

129 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

30 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

37 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

60 Fps

Battlefield 5 2160p

52 Fps

Battlefield 5 1440p

96 Fps

Battlefield 5 1080p

143 Fps

GTA 5 2160p

78 Fps

GTA 5 1440p

78 Fps

GTA 5 1080p

155 Fps

FP32 (float)

12.236 TFlops

3DMark Time Spy

7330

Blender

2484

OctaneBench

288

Compared to Other GPU

14%
26%
74%
Better then 14% GPU over the past year
Better then 26% GPU over the past 3 years
Better then 74% GPU

SiliconCat Rating

124
Ranks 124 among Desktop GPU on our website
247
Ranks 247 among all GPU on our website
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
195 Fps
TITAN RTX
NVIDIA, December 2018
69 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
46 Fps
Radeon RX 6700M
AMD, May 2021
34 Fps
GeForce RTX 2060
NVIDIA, January 2019
24 Fps
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
289 Fps
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
NVIDIA, May 2021
126 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
85 Fps
GeForce RTX 2070
NVIDIA, October 2018
69 Fps
GeForce GTX 1070
NVIDIA, June 2016
49 Fps
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
AMD, November 2022
307 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080
NVIDIA, September 2020
185 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
129 Fps
Radeon RX 5600 XT
AMD, January 2020
101 Fps
GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
NVIDIA, January 2022
73 Fps
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
AMD, October 2020
67 Fps
Radeon RX 6800
AMD, October 2020
52 Fps
Radeon RX 7700 XT
AMD, August 2023
37 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
30 Fps
Radeon RX 6400
AMD, January 2022
8 Fps
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
NVIDIA, May 2021
79 Fps
Radeon RX 6800
AMD, October 2020
59 Fps
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
NVIDIA, July 2019
44 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
37 Fps
Radeon RX 6400
AMD, January 2022
11 Fps
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
AMD, November 2022
128 Fps
96 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
NVIDIA, December 2020
71 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
60 Fps
Radeon RX 6400
AMD, January 2022
21 Fps
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6750 XT
AMD, March 2022
78 Fps
Radeon RX 6600 XT
AMD, July 2021
59 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
52 Fps
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
NVIDIA, February 2019
43 Fps
Radeon RX 580
AMD, April 2017
28 Fps
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
AMD, March 2021
143 Fps
Radeon RX 5700 XT
AMD, July 2019
115 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
96 Fps
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
NVIDIA, October 2019
78 Fps
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
NVIDIA, December 2017
53 Fps
Battlefield 5 1080p
RTX A6000
NVIDIA, October 2020
196 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
NVIDIA, December 2020
169 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
143 Fps
Radeon RX 6600
AMD, October 2021
126 Fps
GeForce GTX 1070
NVIDIA, June 2016
96 Fps
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
AMD, November 2022
173 Fps
98 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
78 Fps
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
NVIDIA, February 2019
59 Fps
GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
NVIDIA, December 2021
39 Fps
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
NVIDIA, May 2021
153 Fps
GeForce RTX 3070
NVIDIA, September 2020
103 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060
NVIDIA, January 2021
82 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
78 Fps
GeForce GTX 1650
NVIDIA, April 2019
29 Fps
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3090
NVIDIA, September 2020
213 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
175 Fps
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
NVIDIA, March 2017
157 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
155 Fps
GeForce GTX 960
NVIDIA, January 2015
69 Fps
FP32 (float)
12.912 TFlops
12.593 TFlops
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
12.236 TFlops
Radeon 890M
AMD, July 2024
11.761 TFlops
TITAN X Pascal
NVIDIA, August 2016
11.188 TFlops
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
NVIDIA, December 2020
11574
Radeon RX 6650M XT
AMD, January 2022
9283
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
7330
Radeon R9 FURY X
AMD, June 2015
5172
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
NVIDIA, December 2017
3816
Blender
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
12577
2912
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
2484
Tesla M40 24 GB
NVIDIA, November 2015
589
Tesla K80
NVIDIA, November 2014
258
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
1341
RTX A4000
NVIDIA, April 2021
350
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
288
GeForce GTX 780
NVIDIA, May 2013
88
T550 Mobile
NVIDIA, May 2022
47