NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM 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 GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

3472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +3409%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Jul 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

1100 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

70.40GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

28

112

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GA104

G92-240-B1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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