NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +153%

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

50

SM Count

28

6400

Shading Units

3584

200

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

64

200

Tensor Cores

112

50

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

GA104

GB205

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

17.4 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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