NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1725MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +214%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

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GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

1920

184

TMUs

120

96

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

240

46

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU104

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

160W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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