GeForce RTX 30 Series

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (8GB & 12GB versions)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (8GB & 12GB versions)
Representative ASUS product image. Board design, dimensions and power limits can vary by model.Source coverage for this specification group is incomplete.

At a glance

Launch date
Architecture
Ampere
CUDA cores
3,584
Memory
12 GB GDDR62 published configurations
TGP
170 W

Hardware specifications

Compute

CUDA cores
3,584

Clocks

Base clock
1,320 MHz
Boost clock
1,780 MHz

Memory

Configuration 1 Capacity
12 GB
Configuration 1 Memory type
GDDR6
Configuration 1 Bus width
192-bit
Configuration 1 Bandwidth
360 GB/s
Configuration 2 Capacity
8 GB
Configuration 2 Memory type
GDDR6
Configuration 2 Bus width
128-bit

Power

TGP
170 W
Recommended PSU
550 W
Power connectors
1x PCIe 8-pin

Physical

Interface
PCI Express Gen 4
Display connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Before you buy

Fit and power planning

Use the published values below as a starting point then verify the exact retail card, case and power supply you plan to use.

TGP
170 W
Recommended PSU
550 W
Power connectors
1x PCIe 8-pin
Display connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Confirm the exact partner-board specification before buying. Cooler size, case clearance, connector placement and power limits can differ from the published reference values.

Measured evidence

Market and rendering evidence

Historical launch pricing for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (8GB & 12GB versions) preserves source terms such as USD, MSRP and SEP. It is shown separately from one workload-specific community benchmark.

Blender Cycles rendering

2,140.9 estimated samples per minute

Backend
OptiX
Confidence
Established
Submission count
535 submissions
Cohort
Blender 4.5.0 on Windows using OptiX across the standard Blender Benchmark scenes

This is a Cycles rendering community median in estimated samples per minute. It is not gaming FPS or an overall GPU rating.

Open Blender Open Data source

Retrieved

Open Blender Open Data methodology

Evidence record

Sources and verification

Specifications for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (8GB & 12GB versions) were checked against the linked source material. Last verified .

The RTX 3060 image context comes from a reviewed owner-supplied local ASUS manufacturer image and is not asserted by the NVIDIA specification sources. The original 12 GB configuration is primary with a 192-bit bus and NVIDIA-published 360 GB/s raw bandwidth. The later 8 GB option is second with a 128-bit bus and no bandwidth because the reviewed NVIDIA sources do not map a numeric value to that configuration. NVIDIA dates the later option only to November 2022. Both capacities share 3584 CUDA cores, a 1.32 GHz base clock, a 1.78 GHz boost clock and 170 W Graphics Card Power so the catalog stores 1320 MHz base, 1780 MHz boost and normalizes the power label to TGP. NVIDIA publishes no fixed reference length, width or slot width. The global comparison page publishes one PCIe 8-pin connector while the family detail table leaves that cell blank. The display arrangement and PCI Express Gen 4 value describe NVIDIA's reference entry and are not universal partner-card specifications.

Where to buy

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (8GB & 12GB versions)

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MSI RTX 3060 Ventus 2X OC 12GB

Linked variant: 12 GB GDDR6

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