NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +153%

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

50

SM Count

28

6400

Shading Units

3584

200

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

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

85.30 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

GA106

GB205

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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