NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

3392 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +1205%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

448

120

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

40

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GT215

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

185W

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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