GeForce GT 420 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
GeForce GT 420 OEM
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GF108
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
December 2020
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
134.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.800
253.1
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
2.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2