GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2512MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 608.3GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+90%
30870
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16200
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5070
+84%
22544
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5070
+81%
10789
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
5941
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5070
+90%
5896
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
3097
Graphics Card
Mar 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
2325 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
48
SM Count
38
6144
Shading Units
4864
192
TMUs
152
80
ROPs
80
192
Tensor Cores
152
48
RT Cores
38
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
225W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 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
GA104
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
263 mm²
Die Size
392 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
6.7
