GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon RX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 6 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1665MHz vs 1206MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+227%
16200
Radeon RX 470
4940
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+232%
12223
Radeon RX 470
3679
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+249%
5941
Radeon RX 470
1701
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+316%
50
Radeon RX 470
12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+260%
90
Radeon RX 470
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+245%
138
Radeon RX 470
40
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+200%
102
Radeon RX 470
34
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+58%
155
Radeon RX 470
98
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 30
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
926 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
2048
152
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
120W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
8 nm
Process Size
14 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
