NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1777MHz vs 1379MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1103%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Mar 2018

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

1379 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP108

GA104

GPU Variant

GP108-310-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

Board Design

195W

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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