GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce GT 1030

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Dec 2020
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

170 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeForce GT 1030
GPU NameGA104 (GA104-200-A1)vsGP108 (GP108-300-A1)
Fab Process8 nmvs14 nm
Die Size392 mm²vs74 mm²
Transistors17,400 millionvs1,800 million
Shaders4864vs384
Compute Units38vs3
Core clock1410 MHzvs1228 MHz
ROPs80vs16
TMUs152vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeForce GT 1030
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeForce GT 1030
TDP200 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date1 Dec 2020vs17 May 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    133.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    253.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    448.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    16200.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better