NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

1% slightly better overall score

5174 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

125 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

Identical

61 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

87 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

Identical

48 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

2703.17 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

85961 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82701 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1620 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2130 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

70 W

142% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

102.2 Gigapixels/s

19% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

187.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

27% slightly more shading units

2816

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

27% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

99th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs RTX 2000 Ada Generation comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the RTX 2000 Ada Generation in our tests.

The RTX 2000 Ada Generation has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the RTX 2000 Ada Generation.