NVIDIA GA106 “ Ampere ” GPU for GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB graphics card in the photo

NVIDIA announced its GeForce RTX 3060 12GB graphics card at CES 2021 and is expected to debut later this month. The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, unlike existing GeForce RTX 30 products, will use a brand new Ampere GPU known as the GA106.

The GPU of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB graphics card shown, the Ampere GA106

Leaked by Videocardz, the GA106 GPU will be the latest addition to Ampere’s line of gaming GPUs. We have already seen two other GPUs in action in the gaming segment which include the GA102 and GA104 while the GA100 is positioned exclusively towards the HPC and AI segment.

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An interesting thing to note here is that the particular SKU of the Ampere GPU is the GA106-400 and not the GA106-300, which NVIDIA will actually use for its GeForce RTX 3060 12GB graphics card and the reason given by the source is that this A particular chip was featured on one of the first ES cards before NVIDIA returned to the drawing board and decided to use the reduced GA106-300 matrix on the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. The GA106-400 GPU SKU includes a total of 3,840 CUDA cores while the GA106-300 GPU SKU includes 3,584 CUDA cores. The package size of the GA106 chip is the same as the GA104 GPU, while the die itself is much smaller.

GA106 GPU is estimated to be around 276mm² which is even smaller than the TU116 GPU which measured 284mm². So overall you get a lot more power in a much smaller die area than before. The TU116 GPU also lacked ray tracing hardware and this was only enabled on the TU106 GPU which measured at 445mm² which is bigger than GA104 GPU.

Apart from this, the PCB can be seen using Samsung K4ZAF3258M-HC16 memory modules. These modules are clocked at 16 Gb / s and since they operate on a 192-bit bus interface, we will be looking at a cumulative bandwidth of 384 Gb / s. Each module also has 2GB of VRAM capacity and since there are 6 modules in total, the RTX 3060 will feature 12GB of GDDR6 memory capacity.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series ‘Ampere’ graphics card specifications:

Graphics card name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GPU name	Ampere GA106-300	Amper GA104-200	Ampere GA104-300	Ampere GA102-200	Ampere GA102-300
Process node	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm
Die Size	TBC	395.2 mm2	395.2 mm2	628.4 mm2	628.4 mm2
Transistors	TBC	17.4 billion	17.4 billion	28 billion	28 billion
CUDA colors	3584	4864	5888	8704	10496
TMU / ROP	112/64	152/80	184/96	272/96	328/112
Tensor / RT hearts	112/28	152/38	184/46	272/68	328/82
Basic clock	1320 MHz	1410 MHz	1,500 MHz	1440 MHz	1,400 MHz
Boost Clock	1780 MHz	1665 MHz	1730 MHz	1710 MHz	1700 MHz
FP32 calculation	13 TFLOP	16 TFLOP	20 TFLOP	30 TFLOP	36 TFLOP
RT TFLOP	25 TFLOP	32 TFLOP	40 TFLOP	58 TFLOP	69 TFLOP
Tensor-TOP	101 TOP	192 TOP	163 TOP	238 TOP	285 TOP
Memory capacity	12 GB of GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	10 GB GDDR6X	24 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus	192 bits	256 bits	256 bits	320 bits	384 bits
Memory speed	16 Gbit / s	14 Gbit / s	14 Gbit / s	19 Gbit / s	19.5 Gbit / s
Bandwidth	384 Gbit / s	448 Gbit / s	448 Gbit / s	760 Gbit / s	936 Gbit / s
TGP	170 W	175 W	220 W	320 W	350 W
Price (MSRP / FE)	$ 329	US $ 399	US $ 499	US $ 699	$ 1,499
Launch (availability)	End of February 2021	December 2, 2020	October 29, 2020	September 17, 2020	September 24, 2020

All in all, it will be interesting to see where the final performance sits with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB graphics card. It will cost US $ 329 and should be as fast as the GeForce RTX 2080 with a lot more power consumption. weak and better ray tracing abilities.