GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 200W)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1665MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
3200 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
+313%
16200
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
+221%
11709
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
+239%
5710
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
+965%
3249
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
+374%
365
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Feb 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
38
1664
Shading Units
4864
104
TMUs
152
56
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
200W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA103S
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA103-200-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
398 mm²
Die Size
496 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.5
