NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2475MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +79%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

16.2 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 4070 +75%

5710

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

3249

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4070 +75%

640

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

365

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Feb 2022

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

38

5888

Shading Units

4864

184

TMUs

152

64

ROPs

80

184

Tensor Cores

152

46

RT Cores

38

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA103S

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

295 mm²

Die Size

496 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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