NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (175W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1852MHz vs 1620MHz)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +90%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3840

144

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

288

Tensor Cores

120

36

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GA106

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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