GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4070 Advantages
Released 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2475MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070
+79%
29150
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16200
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4070
+46%
17887
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4070
+33%
7907
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
5941
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 4070
+77%
5508
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
3097
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
+64%
82
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
+77%
160
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
90
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
+85%
256
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
138
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
+22%
54
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
44
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
+86%
93
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
50
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
+68%
130
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
77
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
+32%
98
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
74
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
+31%
172
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
131
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
+15%
200
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
173
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
+100%
132
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
66
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
+41%
144
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
102
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
+22%
190
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
155
Graphics Card
Apr 2023
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
504.2GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
38
5888
Shading Units
4864
184
TMUs
152
64
ROPs
80
184
Tensor Cores
152
46
RT Cores
38
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
225W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA104
AD104-250-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
295 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
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
8.9
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
