NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB 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

More VRAM (12GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (420.2GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB +183%

36.13 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2355 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

160bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

420.2GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

56

3584

Shading Units

7168

112

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

80

112

Tensor Cores

224

28

RT Cores

56

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

201.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

564.5 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

36.13 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

36.13 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

564.5 GFLOPS

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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD104

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-275-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

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

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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