NVIDIA GA106
SM Diagram
NVIDIA's GA106 GPU uses the Ampere architecture and is made using a 8 nm production process at Samsung. With a die size of 300 mm² and a transistor count of 13,250 million it is a large chip. GA106 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (Feature Level 12_2). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.0 and CUDA 8.5 can be used. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. It features 4096 shading units, 128 texture mapping units and 64 ROPs. Also included are 128 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. The GPU also contains 32 raytracing acceleration cores.
Further reading:
Ampere Architecture Whitepaper 
Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- GA106
- Codename
- NV176
- Architecture
- Ampere
- Foundry
- Samsung
- Process Size
- 8 nm
- Transistors
- 13,250 million
- Density
- 44.2M / mm²
- Die Size
- 300 mm²
- Released
- 2020
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- CUDA
- 8.5
- Shader Model
- 6.5
- PureVideo HD
- VP11
- VDPAU
- Feature Set k
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 4096
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 64
- SM Count
- 32
- FP16 Units
- 4096
- FP64 Units
- 64
- INT32 Units
- 2048
- Tensor Cores
- 128
- RT Cores
- 32
- SFUs
- 512
- TPCs
- 16
- GPCs
- 4
- Tex L1 Cache
- 64 KB per SM
- L1 Cache
- 128 KB per SM
- L2 Cache
- 3072 KB
- Max. TDP
- 180 W
All Ampere GPUs
- NVIDIA GA100
- NVIDIA GA102
- NVIDIA GA104
- NVIDIA GA106
NVIDIA GPU Architecture History
- 1998-2000 Fahrenheit
- 1999-2005 Celsius
- 2001-2003 Kelvin
- 2003-2005 Rankine
- 2003-2013 Curie
- 2006-2010 Tesla
- 2007-2013 Tesla 2.0
- 2010-2016 Fermi
- 2010-2013 VLIW Vec4
- 2010-2016 Fermi 2.0
- 2012-2018 Kepler
- 2013-2015 Kepler 2.0
- 2014-2017 Maxwell
- 2014-2019 Maxwell 2.0
- 2016-2020 Pascal
- 2017-2020 Volta
- 2018-2020 Turing
- 2020-2021 Ampere
Graphics cards using the NVIDIA GA106 GPU
| Name | Chip | Memory | Shaders | TMUs | ROPs | Base Clock | Boost Clock | Memory Clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | GA106-300-A1 | 6 GB | 3840 | 120 | 64 | 1500 MHz | 1725 MHz | 1750 MHz |
GA106 GPU Notes
| Speculation |