NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +97%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 2021

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

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/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

GA104-150-KC-A1

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

170W

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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