NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (2460MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (115W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +34%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

15.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

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GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1500MHz

Base Clock

1830MHz

1725MHz

Boost Clock

2460MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

2125MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0 GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

3072

184

TMUs

96

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

96

46

RT Cores

24

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4MB

L2 Cache

24MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD106

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD106-155-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17,400 million

Transistors

22,900 million

392mm²

Die Size

188mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

115W

550W

Suggested PSU

300W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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