NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada has 2816 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.13 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 12.00 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.78 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 12.72 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ada Lovelace architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 28 execution units.
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada GPU MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
AD107 GPU Chip GA106-300-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Ampere
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
2816 Shader 3584
48 Render Output Units 48
88 Texture Units 112
22 Raytracing Cores 28

Memory

The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G has a 12 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.875GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 12 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.875 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 15.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 360 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada has a turbo clock of 2.130 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G is 1.777 GHz.

1.620 GHz Base Clock 1.320 GHz
2.130 GHz Boost Clock 1.777 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as Unknown.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

70 W (Reference) TDP 170 W
-- TDP (up) --
Unknown Tjunction max 93 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 70 mm Fan 1 1 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 40 dB

Connectivity

The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
4x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

168 mm Length 172 mm
69 mm Height 125 mm
-- Width 43 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 503 g
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada was released in Q1/2024.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G published in Q1/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q1/2024 Release date Q1/2021
649 $ (Reference) Launch Price 389 $
5 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
12 GB GDDR6
29 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
12 GB GDDR6
35 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
12 GB GDDR6
55 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
12 GB GDDR6
9 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
12 GB GDDR6
24 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
12 GB GDDR6
58 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
12 GB GDDR6
51 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
12 GB GDDR6
94 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G MSI GeForce RTX 3060 AERO ITX 12G
12 GB GDDR6
130 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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