NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

3488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +4857%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

12

3584

Shading Units

96

112

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

69W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GT215

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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