NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1785MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +596%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1630

1.828 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +317%

8780

GeForce GTX 1630

2102

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +633%

44

GeForce GTX 1630

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +344%

80

GeForce GTX 1630

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +286%

116

GeForce GTX 1630

30

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce GTX 1630

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1740 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

8

3584

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.56 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.656 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU117

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU117-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

200 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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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