NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1777MHz vs 1379MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +1103%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

619

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +1354%

9002

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1152 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1379 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

3

SM Count

28

384

Shading Units

3584

24

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

170W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GA104

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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