NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
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Shading Units
3584
1664
TMUs
112
104
ROPs
48
56
Tensor Cores
112
—
RT Cores
28
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GM204
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
148W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
2x 6-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
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,683
OctaneBench
—
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
Blender
—
305
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.