NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (2475MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +128%

29.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

9002

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +98%

17853

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Aug 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

480.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

46

3584

Shading Units

5888

112

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

184

28

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

36 MB

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Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

200W

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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD104

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-2XX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

294 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

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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