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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Specs, Benchmarks & Pricing

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 is a mainstream gaming graphics card released in February 2021, featuring the Ampere architecture based on the GA106 GPU. It offers 3,584 CUDA cores, 112 3rd-generation tensor cores, and 12GB of GDDR6 memory running at 15 Gbps, delivering 203.80 INT8 TOPS with sparsity for AI workloads. NVIDIA officially specified the card at 13 shader-TFLOPS, 25 RT-TFLOPS for ray tracing, and 101 tensor-TFLOPS for DLSS acceleration. With a TDP of 170W, it provides excellent performance-per-watt for gaming at 1080p/1440p and machine learning inference workloads. The RTX 3060 uses a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 interface and features 360 GB/s memory bandwidth on a 192-bit bus. At launch, it was positioned as the successor to the popular GTX 1060, offering twice the raster performance and 10x the ray-tracing performance at a $329 price point.

Release Date: February 25, 2021
MSRP: $329 USD
GPU Architecture: Ampere
Hardware-Accelerated GEMM Operations:
FP16 FP32 BF16 FP8 INT8 INT4 TF32 FP64 INT1
CUDA Compute Capability : 8.6

Considerations

Lower FP32 compute performance compared to other GPUs
Lower tensor core count compared to other GPUs
Below average 3DMark Wild Life Extreme (4K) performance
Below average 3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1440p) performance

Specifications for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Specification	Performance Ranking
FP32 TFLOPs	20th @ 12.74 TFLOPs
FP16 TFLOPs	57th @ 101.9 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Tensor Core Count	25th @ 112 Cores (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Memory Capacity (GB)	41st @ 12 GB (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	30th @ 360 GB/s (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Int8 TOPs	28th @ 203.8 TOPs (Entry Tier)(Entry)

Gaming Benchmarks for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Rankings based on 1,900 real-world benchmark results from OpenBenchmarking.org

Benchmark	Performance Ranking
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (4K)	10th @ 95 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1440p)	10th @ 184 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1080p)	21st @ 300 FPS
Quake II RTX (4K)	15th @ 27 FPS
Quake II RTX (1440p)	44th @ 46 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Quake II RTX (1080p)	25th @ 71 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)

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Trend: Over this period, the lowest average price has been down 13.3%. The current lowest average is $214. The lowest average price is calculated as the average of the three lowest-priced listings each day.

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Product Identifiers

Available from 7 Partners (15 products)

ASUS

ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition 12GB GDDR6: ROG-STRIX-RTX3060-O12G-GAMING(model number)
ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3060 V2 OC Edition 12GB GDDR6: ROG-STRIX-RTX3060-O12G-V2-GAMING(model number)
TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition 12GB GDDR6: TUF-RTX3060-O12G-GAMING(model number)
Dual GeForce RTX 3060 V2 OC Edition 12GB GDDR6: DUAL-RTX3060-O12G-V2(model number)

Gigabyte

GeForce RTX 3060 GAMING OC 12G: GV-N3060GAMING OC-12GD(model number)
GeForce RTX 3060 EAGLE OC 12G: GV-N3060EAGLE OC-12GD(model number)
GeForce RTX 3060 VISION OC 12G: GV-N3060VISION OC-12G(model number)

Zotac

ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC: ZT-A30600H-10M(model number)
ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge: ZT-A30600E-10M(model number)
ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060: ZT-A30600P-10M(model number)

PNY

XLR8 Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 REVEL EPIC-X RGB Dual Fan: VCG306012DFXPPB(model number)
XLR8 Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 REVEL EPIC-X RGB Single Fan: VCG306012SFXPPB(model number)

EVGA

GeForce RTX 3060 XC GAMING: 12G-P5-3657-KR(model number)

Palit

GeForce RTX 3060 Dual: NE63060019K9-190AD(model number)

Gainward

GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost: NE63060019K9-190AU(model number)

References

Notes

FP16 TFLOPS of 101.9 represents Peak Sparse Tensor Core performance (8x FP32). Dense Tensor performance is ~51 TFLOPS.
INT8 TOPS of 203.8 represents Peak Sparse INT8 Tensor performance.
Note: Previous versions incorrectly listed dense performance (50.95 TFLOPS) as sparse. Updated to match Workstation and Ada generation metrics (101.9 TFLOPS).
fp32TFLOPS calculated as 3,584 CUDA cores × 1.777 GHz boost clock × 2 ops/cycle = 12.74 TFLOPS. Ampere architecture features 2 FP32 ops per cycle through dedicated FP32 datapath and shared INT32/FP32 datapath.
NVIDIA officially specified the RTX 3060 at 13 shader-TFLOPS (FP32), 25 RT-TFLOPS (ray tracing), and 101 tensor-TFLOPS (general tensor performance for DLSS).
Memory bandwidth calculated as 192-bit interface × 15 Gbps = 360 GB/s.
The RTX 3060 uses the GA106-300-A1 variant of the GA106 chip with 28 of 30 streaming multiprocessors enabled (28 SMs × 4 tensor cores/SM = 112 tensor cores).
Process node is Samsung 8nm with approximately 12 billion transistors and die area of 276 mm².
TDP of 170W is the official NVIDIA specification, with recommended PSU of 550W.
Supports CUDA Compute Capability 8.6, same as other Ampere GeForce 30-series GPUs.
At launch in February 2021, the RTX 3060 was positioned to succeed the GTX 1060 with 2x raster and 10x ray-tracing performance at $329 MSRP.
MSRP of $329 USD sourced from NVIDIA official product announcement at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-3060/
No NVIDIA Founders Edition was released for the RTX 3060 (only RTX 3060 Ti had a Founders Edition). All RTX 3060 cards are from AIB partners.
Third-party product identifiers sourced from official manufacturer websites, TechPowerUp GPU Database, Newegg, and Best Buy product listings.