NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060: specs and benchmarks

Price now

426$

Games supported

100%

Year of release

2021

Performance

58.04%

General info

Value for money

43.09

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

12 January 2021

Launch price (MSRP)

329$

Price now

426$

Value for money

In order for us to determine the ratio index, we compare the characteristics, cost and performance of all video cards.

Technical specs

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Number of transistors

13,250 million

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

Thermal design power (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Length

242 mm

Width

2 -slot

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Memory

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

Technologies

API support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

Shader Model

6.5

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

2.0

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

8.6

Recommended processors

We recommend several video cards for comparison that are close in performance.

GeForce RTX 3060

TITAN V CEO Edition

TITAN V

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Tesla P40

Recommended processors

According to our statistics, the processors listed below are most often used in conjunction with GeForce RTX 3060.

7.2%

Core i5-10400F

5.8%

Core i5-11400F

4.7%

Ryzen 7 5800H

4.1%

Ryzen 5 3600

Ryzen 5 5600X

3.8%

Core i7-11800H

3.3%

Core i5-1135G7

3.2%

Ryzen 5 5600H

2.6%

Core i5-12400F

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