NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1852MHz vs 1683MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +120%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1920

120

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP104

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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