Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

GPU GPU
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
RT Cores 28
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
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