NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 's Advantages

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

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP +70%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1740 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

28

6144

Shading Units

3584

192

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

64

192

Tensor Cores

112

48

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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