NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1777MHz vs 1379MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +1103%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +1312%

8755

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

620

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +2100%

44

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +1042%

80

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +866%

116

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +5400%

55

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +494%

101

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

17

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +545%

142

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

22

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

1152MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

1379MHz

1875MHz

Memory Clock

1050MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3MB

L2 Cache

512KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP108

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

1,800 million

276mm²

Die Size

74mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

20W

450W

Suggested PSU

200W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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