NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

3488 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +4857%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

28

96

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

69W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

GA104

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.7

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