NVIDIA GA106 ‘Ampere’ GPU For GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Graphics Card Pictured

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

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Graphics Card's GPU Pictured, The Ampere GA106

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

One interesting thing to note here is that the particular Ampere GPU SKU is GA106-400 and not the GA106-300 which is what NVIDIA will actually be using for its GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB graphics card & the reason mentioned by the source is that this particular chip was featured on an early ES card before NVIDIA went back to the drawing board and decided to use the cut-down GA106-300 die on the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. The GA106-400 GPU SKU features a total of 3840 CUDA cores while the GA106-300 GPU SKU features 3584 CUDA cores. The package size of the GA106 chip is the same as the GA104 GPU while the die itself is much smaller.

It is estimated that the GA106 GPU measures at around 276mm² which is even smaller than the TU116 GPU which measured at 284mm². So overall, you're getting much more horsepower in a much smaller die area than before. The TU116 GPU also lacked raytracing hardware and that was only enabled on the TU106 GPU which measured at 445mm² which is larger than the GA104 GPU.

Other than that, the PCB can be seen making use of the Samsung K4ZAF3258M-HC16 memory modules. These modules are clocked at 16 Gbps and since they are running across a 192-bit bus interface, we will be looking at a cumulative bandwidth of 384 GB/s. Each module also features 2 GB of VRAM capacity and since there are 6 modules in total, the RTX 3060 will feature 12 GB 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	Ampere 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	395.2mm2	395.2mm2	628.4mm2	628.4mm2
Transistors	TBC	17.4 Billion	17.4 Billion	28 Billion	28 Billion
CUDA Cores	3584	4864	5888	8704	10496
TMUs / ROPs	112 / 64	152 / 80	184 / 96	272 / 96	328 / 112
Tensor / RT Cores	112 / 28	152 / 38	184 / 46	272 / 68	328 / 82
Base Clock	1320 MHz	1410 MHz	1500 MHz	1440 MHz	1400 MHz
Boost Clock	1780 MHz	1665 MHz	1730 MHz	1710 MHz	1700 MHz
FP32 Compute	13 TFLOPs	16 TFLOPs	20 TFLOPs	30 TFLOPs	36 TFLOPs
RT TFLOPs	25 TFLOPs	32 TFLOPs	40 TFLOPs	58 TFLOPs	69 TFLOPs
Tensor-TOPs	101 TOPs	192 TOPs	163 TOPs	238 TOPs	285 TOPs
Memory Capacity	12 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	10 GB GDDR6X	24 GB GDDR6X
Memory Bus	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit	320-bit	384-bit
Memory Speed	16 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	19 Gbps	19.5 Gbps
Bandwidth	384 Gbps	448 Gbps	448 Gbps	760 Gbps	936 Gbps
TGP	170W	175W	220W	320W	350W
Price (MSRP / FE)	$329 US	$399 US	$499 US	$699 US	$1499 US
Launch (Availability)	Late February 2021	2nd December 2020	29th October 2020	17th September 2020	24th September 2020

Overall, it will be interesting to see where the final performance of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB graphics card lands. It will cost $329 US and is expected to be as fast as the GeForce RTX 2080 with a much lower power draw and better ray-tracing capabilities.

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