NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1852MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (185W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +42%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

3840

184

TMUs

120

96

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

120

46

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA106

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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