NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
817 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1282 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
3840
TMUs
104
120
ROPs
56
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
SM Count
—
30
Tensor Cores
—
120
RT Cores
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30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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9.846 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA106
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
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Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
12 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
60W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
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OctaneBench
77
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.