NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Specifications for AI Enthusiasts

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.

Specifications for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

 Raw Performance
FP32 TFLOPs: 12.74
11%
FP16 TFLOPs: 50.95
28%
Tensor Core Count: 112
23%
Memory Capacity (GB): 12
34%
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s): 360
23%
Int8 TOPs: 203.8
21%

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