NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1738%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730 OEM

0.693 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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GeForce GT 730 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

40.10GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.216 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.86 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

692.7 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GK107

GA104

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

64W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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