NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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

Main Differences

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

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +90%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

36

3840

Shading Units

2304

120

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

288

30

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU106

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

445 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

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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