NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +4636%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce GT 430

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

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

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

2

3584

Shading Units

96

112

TMUs

16

48

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

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

49W

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

GA106

GPU Name

GF108

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

116 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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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