NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1777MHz vs 1683MHz)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +97%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

3584

120

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA104

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA104

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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