NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 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 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

3536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +8066%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

1

3584

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

29W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF119

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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