GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 vs GeForce RTX 3060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 170W)
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1777MHz vs 1380MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
706
GeForce RTX 3060
+1704%
12740
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
543
GeForce RTX 3060
+1510%
8747
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
153
GeForce RTX 3060
+2577%
4097
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1380 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
28
256
Shading Units
3584
16
TMUs
112
8
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
16 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
11.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
22.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
706.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
29.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
170W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GA106
GP108-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-300-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
12 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
