NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 170W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 13 years late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
3568 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210 PCI
0.035 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+36300%
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
28
16
Shading Units
3584
8
TMUs
112
4
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.900 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
3.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
35.20 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
31W
TDP
170W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GT216
GPU Name
GA106
-
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.486 billion
Transistors
12 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
4.1
Shader Model
6.6
