NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1777MHz vs 1683MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +55%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

8.186 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Nov 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

19

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2432

112

TMUs

152

64

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

255.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

127.9 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.186 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

255.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP104

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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