NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Jun 2017
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1627 MHz
1215 MHz
Boost Clock
1852 MHz
1379 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
16
Shading Units
3840
2048
TMUs
120
128
ROPs
48
64
Tensor Cores
120
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RT Cores
30
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
88.90 GPixel/s
88.26 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.2 GTexel/s
176.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
14.22 TFLOPS
88.26 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.22 TFLOPS
5.648 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
222.2 GFLOPS
176.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GP104
GPU Variant
GA106-400-A1
N17E-G2-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
185W
115W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
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
6.7
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.