NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
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
1320 MHz
1215 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1379 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
16
Shading Units
3584
2048
TMUs
112
128
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
88.26 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
176.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
88.26 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
5.648 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
176.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GP104
GPU Variant
GA106-302-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
170W
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
6.6
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.