NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +4636%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730

0.269 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +2552%

8780

GeForce GT 730

331

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GT 730

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

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

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/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

256 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

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF108-400-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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