GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 145W)
GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 81% (2497MHz vs 1379MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
3456 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
GeForce RTX 5060
+1711%
19180
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
GeForce RTX 5060
+2052%
13735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
GeForce RTX 5060
+3545%
6452
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
2280 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR7
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
30
384
Shading Units
3840
24
TMUs
120
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
145W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GB206
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
5 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
6.1
CUDA
12.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
