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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is a graphics card, built on the Ampere architecture. It has 3,584 shading units, 12 GB of GDDR6 memory, a boost clock of 1.78 GHz and a 170 W board power rating. It scores 16,715 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.

AmpereGA106-300-A1

7/10 key specs recorded · 33 facts

Depth: 40 recorded fields, 3 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 7 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

3,584cores

28 SMs

Memory

12 GB

GDDR6

Boost clock

1.78 GHz

1.32 GHz base

Board power

170 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB scores 16,715 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 95% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #139), measured across 47,303 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 965.

PassMark G3D Mark

16,715

Rank #139
Faster than 95% of 2,658 GPUs
47,303 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 198 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 90.4% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 97 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 89.7% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 127 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 88.1% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 68 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 88.7% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 8,225 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 91.8% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB averages DirectX 9 198 fps, DirectX 10 97 fps, DirectX 11 127 fps, DirectX 12 68 fps and GPU Compute 8,225 ops/s, across 47,303 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 4.0 x16

Max memory 12 GB

Core clock 1320 MHz

Memory clock 1875 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Max TDP 170 W

First benchmarked 2021-02-25

Samples 47,303

PassMark listing (collected 2026-09-30)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB states the PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, up to 12 GB of memory, a core clock of 1320 MHz, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2021-02-25. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Ampere

Codename GA106-300-A1

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is based on the Ampere architecture and uses the GA106-300-A1 graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 3,584

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors 28

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 112

Render output units (ROPs) Not recorded

Ray tracing cores 28

Tensor / AI cores 112

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB has 3,584 shading units, 28 streaming multiprocessors, 112 texture mapping units, 28 ray tracing cores and 112 tensor cores.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB.

Clock speeds

Base clock 1.32 GHz

Boost clock 1.78 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB runs at a base clock of 1.32 GHz and boosts to 1.78 GHz.

Memory

Size 12 GB

Type GDDR6

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is equipped with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB has a board power rating of 170 W and it connects over PCIe 4.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 170 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 4.0 x16

Market

Launched Not recorded

Launch price $329

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce RTX 30 Series

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB launched at a price of $329.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 16,715

PassMark G2D 965

Rank #139

Samples 47,303

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.4

CUDA compute capability 8.6

Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB.

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB has 3 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Rendering

Supported: Hardware ray tracing 2nd Generation

Dedicated GPU hardware that speeds up ray-traced lighting, reflections and shadows in supported games and apps.

Ray tracing units: 28

Not listed (3)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, NVIDIA DLSS and Vulkan ray tracing. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB supports Hardware ray tracing (2nd Generation) under Rendering.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 8.6

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Supported: Tensor cores 3rd Generation

NVIDIA's dedicated matrix-math units used for AI workloads such as DLSS and machine-learning inference.

Tensor cores: 112

Not listed (1)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB supports NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.6) and Tensor cores (3rd Generation) under Compute and AI.

Naming and aliases

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060.

Other names (PassMark) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB have?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB has 12 GB of GDDR6 memory.

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB has a board power rating of 170 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB scores 16,715 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 95% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #139. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 68 fps.