NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1777MHz vs 1770MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +40%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

9.062 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

9002

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +12%

10095

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1605 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

40

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

320

28

RT Cores

40

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

113.3 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

283.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

18.12 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.062 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

283.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU104

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-410-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

545 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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