NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 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)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060
+97%
12.74 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
GeForce RTX 3060
+43%
8747
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
GeForce RTX 3060
+45%
4097
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
28
1920
Shading Units
3584
120
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
170W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GA106
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-300-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
12 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
276 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
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
