NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1777MHz vs 1683MHz)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +97%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +22%

7406

GeForce GTX 1070

6066

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +73%

45

GeForce GTX 1070

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +70%

85

GeForce GTX 1070

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +71%

132

GeForce GTX 1070

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +23%

53

GeForce GTX 1070

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +24%

98

GeForce GTX 1070

79

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +40%

140

GeForce GTX 1070

100

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +70%

82

GeForce GTX 1070

48

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GeForce GTX 1070 +2%

84

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +4%

154

GeForce GTX 1070

148

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1920

112

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP104

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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