NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +128%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 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

1313 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

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

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

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD103

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-175-K1-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

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 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

6.7

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