NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1777MHz vs 1380MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1704%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

0.706 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1380 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

2

3584

Shading Units

256

112

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.04 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.08 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

706.6 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

29.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

20W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 2.0

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP108

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GP108-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

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

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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