NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3488 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 730

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +4636%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 730

312

GeForce RTX 3060 +2709%

8767

GeForce GT 730

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GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 700

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

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GA106

GF108-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

12 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

49W

TDP

170W

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 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

6.6

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