NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GK106 GA106
Architecture Kepler Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Manufacturing process 28 nm 8 nm
Number of transistors 2,540 million 13,250 million
Die size 221 mm² 276 mm²
GPU variant GA106-300-A1

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 27th, 2013 Jan 12th, 2021
Generation GeForce 600 GeForce 30
Production End-of-life Active
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Reviews 17 in our database 60 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 500 GeForce 20
Successor GeForce 700
gpu.details.availability Feb 25th, 2021
Launch price 329 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 1058 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 1875 MHz 15 Gbps effective
Base clock 1320 MHz
Boost clock 1777 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 12 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 80.00 GB/s 360.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 384 3584
TMUs 32 112
ROPs 16 48
SMX count 2
Cache L1 16 KB (per SMX) 128 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 256 KB 3 MB
SM count 28
Tensor cores 112
RT cores 28

Performance

Pixel rate 8.464 GPixel/s 85.30 GPixel/s
Texture rate 33.86 GTexel/s 199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 812.5 GFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 33.86 GFLOPS (1:24) 199.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (half) performance 12.74 TFLOPS (1:1)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 147 mm 5.8 inches 242 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 65 W 170 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 12-pin
Width 112 mm 4.4 inches
Board number PG190 SKU 60

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.1 1.2
CUDA 3.0 8.6
Shader model 5.1 6.6

Other Features

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