NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1852MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (185W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +42%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 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

46

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

5888

120

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

96

120

Tensor Cores

184

30

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA104

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

185W

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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