GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce RTX 3060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2512MHz vs 1777MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+142%
30870
GeForce RTX 3060
12740
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5070
+157%
22544
GeForce RTX 3060
8747
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5070
+163%
10789
GeForce RTX 3060
4097
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5070
+170%
5896
GeForce RTX 3060
2181
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
48
SM Count
28
6144
Shading Units
3584
192
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
48
192
Tensor Cores
112
48
RT Cores
28
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
170W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
GA106
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-300-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
12 billion
263 mm²
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
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
8.6
6.8
Shader Model
6.6
