NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1777MHz vs 1468MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1030%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

3

SM Count

28

384

Shading Units

3584

24

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

195W

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

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104

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

6.7

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