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We benchmark these GPUs and compare AI performance (deep learning training; FP16, FP32, PyTorch, TensorFlow), 3d rendering, Cryo-EM performance in the most popular apps (Octane, VRay, Redshift, Blender, Luxmark, Unreal Engine, Relion Cryo-EM).

Our benchmarks will help you decide which GPU (NVIDIA RTX 4090/4080, H100 Hopper, H200, A100, RTX 6000 Ada, A6000, A5000, or RTX 6000 ADA Lovelace) is the best GPU for your needs. We provide an in-depth analysis of the AI performance of each graphic card's performance so you can make the most informed decision possible. We offer deep learning and 3d rendering benchmarks that will help you get the most out of your hardware.


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Benchmarks

Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks 2023–2024 [Updated]

Resnet50 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Resnet50 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Resnet152 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Resnet152 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Inception V3 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Inception V3 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Inception V4 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Inception V4 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

VGG16 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

VGG16 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

VGG16 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

VGG16 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Googlenet (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Googlenet (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2023–2024 [Updated]

V-Ray

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
236
NVIDIA RTX 3060
695
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Octane

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
188
NVIDIA RTX 3060
297
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Redshift

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
15.04
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Blender

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
1711.12
NVIDIA RTX 3060
2414.27
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Luxmark

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Unreal Engine

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2023-2024 [Updated]

Total run time

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

BERT LARGE Training, Inference Benchmark 2023-2024 [Updated]

Training Time (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Performance (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Training Time (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Performance (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Llama3 70B Inference Benchmark 2024 [Updated]

Eval rate

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2060
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3060
n/a

Technical Specifications

Board Design

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
Length 229 mm 242 mm
Outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 12-pin
Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
TDP 160 W 170 W

Clock Speeds

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
Boost Clock 1680 MHz 1777 MHz
GPU Clock 1365 MHz 1320 MHz
Memory Clock 14000 MHz 15000 MHz

Graphics Card

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Generation GeForce 20 GeForce 30

Graphics Features

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5 6.6
CUDA 7.5 8.6

Graphics Processor

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
Architecture Turing Ampere
Die Size 445 mm2 276 mm2
GPU Name TU106-200A-KA-A1 GA106-300-A1
Process Size 12 nm 8 nm
Transistors 10800 million 13250 million

Memory

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
Bandwidth 336 GB/s 360 GB/s
Memory Bus 192 bit 192 bit
Memory Size 6 GB 12 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6

Render Config

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
ROPs 48 48
RT Cores 30 28
Shading Units/ CUDA Cores 1920 3584
TMUs 120 112
Tensor Cores 240 112

Theoretical Performance

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
FP16 (half) performance 12.9 TFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) performance 6.451 TFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 201.6 GFLOPS 199 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 80.64 GPixel/s 85.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 201.6 GTexel/s 199 GTexel/s

Price

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
MSRP 349 $ 329 $
Release Date Jan 7th, 2019 Jan 12th, 2021

Test bench configuration

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
Hardware BIZON G3000 More details BIZON X5000 More details
Software 3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver: 442.19
VRay Benchmark: 4.10.3
Octane Benchmark: 4.00
Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.x
Blender: 2.81
Luxmark: 3.1
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver: 461.72
VRay Benchmark: 5
Octane Benchmark: 2020.1.5
Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.28 Demo
Blender: 2.90
Luxmark: 3.1

Recommended hardware

NVIDIA RTX 2060 NVIDIA RTX 3060
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