NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Dec 2018
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1683 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
15
Shading Units
3584
1920
TMUs
112
120
ROPs
48
64
Tensor Cores
112
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RT Cores
28
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
107.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
101.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GP104
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
GP104-200-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
16 nm
Transistors
12 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
150W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
6.1
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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6,078
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.