NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +153%

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

532.6GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

50

3584

Shading Units

6400

112

TMUs

200

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

200

28

RT Cores

50

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

40 MB

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Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

220W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GB205

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB205

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

12 billion

Transistors

Unknown

276 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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