NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1777MHz vs 1620MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +70%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070

8869

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +1%

8978

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

288

Tensor Cores

112

36

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GA104

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-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

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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