GeForce GT 420 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 420 OEM
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GF108
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 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
700 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
134.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.800
199.0
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
360.0 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