NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (195W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +178%

35.48 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1980 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

28

7168

Shading Units

3584

224

TMUs

112

80

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

112

56

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

198.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

554.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

35.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

35.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

554.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

195W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x 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

GA104

AD104-350-A1

GPU Variant

GA104

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

294 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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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