NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1777MHz vs 1468MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +1030%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +731%

9002

GeForce GT 1030

1083

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

May 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1228 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

3

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

48

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

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

30W

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 Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP108

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

GP108-300-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

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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