GeForce GT 340 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 340 OEM

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GT215

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2010

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

550 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

257.28 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

727 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

69 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

17.60

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1700 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

27.2 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

1.2

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2