NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +128%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +103%

17853

GeForce RTX 3060

8780

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

28

5888

Shading Units

3584

184

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

112

46

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA106

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

276 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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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