NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

3136 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1069%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

192bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

28

448

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

112

40

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

640 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

GA104

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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