NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +59%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

5888

112

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

184

28

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA104

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

220W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-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

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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