GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1665MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
3200 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+313%
16200
GeForce GTX 970
3920
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+235%
12223
GeForce GTX 970
3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+253%
5941
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+233%
50
GeForce GTX 970
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+200%
90
GeForce GTX 970
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+245%
138
GeForce GTX 970
40
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+57%
66
GeForce GTX 970
42
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+131%
102
GeForce GTX 970
44
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+58%
155
GeForce GTX 970
98
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
1664
152
TMUs
104
80
ROPs
56
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
148W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GM204
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
