NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +79%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +45%

17856

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

12265

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +64%

82

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +77%

160

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +85%

256

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

138

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +22%

54

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

44

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +86%

93

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

50

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +68%

130

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +32%

98

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

74

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +31%

172

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

131

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +15%

200

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

173

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +100%

132

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +41%

144

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

102

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +22%

190

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

155

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Oct 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

1188 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/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

-

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

225W

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

GA104

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

295 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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