GeForce RTX 3060 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 interface. Display outputs include: 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1320 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1777 MHz, memory is running at 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective).īeing a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 draws power from 1x 12-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 170 W maximum. NVIDIA has paired 12 GB GDDR6 memory with the GeForce RTX 3060, which are connected using a 192-bit memory interface. The card also has 28 raytracing acceleration cores. Also included are 112 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. It features 3584 shading units, 112 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs. The GA106 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 276 mm² and 13,250 million transistors.
Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. This ensures that all modern games will run on GeForce RTX 3060. Built on the 8 nm process, and based on the GA106 graphics processor, in its GA106-300-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. The GeForce RTX 3060 is a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on January 12th, 2021.