GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce GT 1010 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

GeForce GT 1010

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

GP108

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

1468 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

256

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

30 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

23.49

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

40.1 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

6.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.4

Vulkan

1.2