GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 21 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
-
112
TMUs
4
48
ROPs
4
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
170W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
NV10
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Celsius
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
220 nm
12 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
-
