NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.17
$ 98.02
$ 186.15 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
18742% significantly better overall score
28 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS
125 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
60 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
88 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
8183% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1164 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
6892% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1280 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
2405% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.37 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
29 W
486% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
5165% significantly higher pixel rate
1.62 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
2970% significantly higher texture rate
6.48 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
7366% significantly more shading units
48

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
1300% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
1100% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
553rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2012 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GT 610 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the GeForce GT 610 in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 610 has a significantly lower TDP at 29 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the GeForce GT 610.

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