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