NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2512MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 608.3GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16.2 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5070
+90%
30.87 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
12223
GeForce RTX 5070
+84%
22544
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
5941
GeForce RTX 5070
+81%
10789
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
3097
GeForce RTX 5070
+90%
5896
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
2325 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
2512 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
38
SM Count
48
4864
Shading Units
6144
152
TMUs
192
80
ROPs
80
152
Tensor Cores
192
38
RT Cores
48
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.0 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
482.3 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.87 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.87 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
482.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GB205
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GB205-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
31.1 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
263 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
1.4
8.6
CUDA
10.1
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
