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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB is a graphics card, built on the Ampere architecture. It has 3,584 shading units, 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, a boost clock of 1.78 GHz and a 170 W board power rating. It scores 15,204 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.

Ampere

7/10 key specs recorded · 31 facts

Depth: 39 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

8 GB

GDDR6

Boost clock

1.78 GHz

1.32 GHz base

Board power

170 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB scores 15,204 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 93.9% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #169), measured across 1,646 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 974.

PassMark G3D Mark

15,204

Rank #169
Faster than 93.9% of 2,658 GPUs
1,646 samples

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

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 190 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 89.2% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 78 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 86% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 106 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 85.5% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 66 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 87.7% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 8,081 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 91.4% 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 8GB averages DirectX 9 190 fps, DirectX 10 78 fps, DirectX 11 106 fps, DirectX 12 66 fps and GPU Compute 8,081 ops/s, across 1,646 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 8 GB

Core clock 1320 MHz

Memory clock 1875 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Max TDP 170 W

First benchmarked 2022-10-12

Samples 1,646

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB states the PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, up to 8 GB of memory, a core clock of 1320 MHz, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2022-10-12. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Ampere

Codename Not recorded

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB is based on the Ampere architecture.

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 8GB 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 8GB 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 8GB.

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 8GB runs at a base clock of 1.32 GHz and boosts to 1.78 GHz.

Memory

Size 8 GB

Type GDDR6

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB 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 8GB launched at a price of $329.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 15,204

PassMark G2D 974

Rank #169

Samples 1,646

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB 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 8GB.

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB 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.

Not listed (3)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB 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 8GB 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.

Not listed (1)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB supports NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.6) and Tensor cores (3rd Generation) under Compute and AI.

Naming and aliases

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB 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 8GB have?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory.

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB has a board power rating of 170 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB scores 15,204 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 93.9% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #169. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 66 fps.