NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

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

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +59%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1725 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

46

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

3584

184

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

112

46

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA104

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-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

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs ATI FirePro 2270