NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 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 670 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 81% (1777MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 670

2.634 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +383%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

980 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

109.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.634 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

109.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA104

GK104-325-A2

GPU Variant

GA104

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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