NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

3568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +36300%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 210 PCI

0.035 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

GeForce 210 PCI

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.900 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.800 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.20 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GT216

GA104

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

31W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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