NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 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 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1777MHz vs 1620MHz)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +70%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

7428

GeForce RTX 2070 +19%

8861

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +21%

45

GeForce RTX 2070

37

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +25%

85

GeForce RTX 2070

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +34%

132

GeForce RTX 2070

98

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

29

GeForce RTX 2070 +10%

32

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

35

GeForce RTX 2070 +5%

37

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

55

GeForce RTX 2070

55

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

53

GeForce RTX 2070 +1%

54

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +2%

98

GeForce RTX 2070

96

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +9%

140

GeForce RTX 2070

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

76

GeForce RTX 2070 +13%

86

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GeForce RTX 2070 +9%

90

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

GeForce RTX 2070 +15%

178

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

36

3584

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

288

28

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

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

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

GA106-302-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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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