NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1650MHz vs 1379MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +578%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +1191%

8020

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

621

Blender

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +1471%

1791

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

114

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +785%

177

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +1400%

30

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +757%

60

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +658%

91

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +4400%

45

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +405%

86

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

17

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +431%

117

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

22

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

34

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

2176

Shading Units

384

136

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GP108

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

184W

TDP

20W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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