NVIDIA GA106 GPU, which is set to power the upcoming RTX 3060 graphic card has been pictured online by Videocardz. The GA106 GPU is the fourth member of NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture family after the GA100, GA102, and GA104 GPUs which have powered the previous cards of the RTX 3000 series.
According to known information, VIDIA was originally planning to launch RTX 3060 with 3840 CUDA cores but as we approached the announcement the manufacturer decided that RTX 3060 will use GA106-300 instead with 3584 cores. Below is the picture of the full GA106-400 GPU chip.
Image Credit: Videocardz.
The RTX 3060 graphic card will feature a cut-down version of the GA106-400 GPU, called the GA106-300. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 will feature K4ZAF3258M-HC16 memory clocked at 16 Gbps. There are 6 modules in total, each carrying 2GB of memory. It appears that GA104 and GA106 GPUs use the same package size, so they are likely pin-compatible.
This design will vastly reduce the development cost for AIBs. This is also why we are seeing two unoccupied memory slots. The RTX 3060 Ti with GA104 GPU uses all eight slots, but memory is limited to 1GB per module and 14 Gbps speed. In other words, this board could easily be adapted for RTX 3060 Ti or even RTX 3050 Ti, which is also rumored to use GA106 GPU in the future.
The RTX 3060, powered by the GA106-300 GPU has 28 SM units enabled which makes a total of 3584 CUDA cores and 112 TMUs. It features a base clock of 1320 MHz and a boost clock of 1777 Mhz. With that CUDA core count, the RTX 3060 GPU can hit a peak horsepower of 12.7 TFLOPs – which is almost on par with the older Turing based flagships.
The GeForce RTX 3060 comes packed with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. The memory runs across a 192-bit bus wide interface and features an effective clock speed of 17.00 Gbps. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 also comes packed with next-generation RT (Raytracing) cores, Tensor cores, and brand-new SM or streaming multi-processor units. The graphics card has a TDP of 170W.
The RTX 3060 will retail for $329 and will be a brilliant budget card for gamers. We hope that NVIDIA can provide a decent supply for it.
