NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 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 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +8066%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

28

48

Shading Units

3584

8

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

195W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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