NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1852MHz vs 1379MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

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

3456 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +1242%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

384

120

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP108

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

20W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 12-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

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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