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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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

Released 11 years and 6 months late

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 RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1069%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

14

3584

Shading Units

448

112

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

40

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF100

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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