NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +1103%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +1318%

8780

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

619

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +2100%

44

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +1042%

80

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +866%

116

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +5400%

55

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +494%

101

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

17

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +545%

142

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

22

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

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

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/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

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

Board Design

170W

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 Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP108

GA106-300-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

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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