Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2022 | Oct 2014 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | GeForce 900M |
| Type | Desktop | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | MXM-B (3.0) |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1320 MHz | 924 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1777 MHz | 1038 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1875 MHz | 1253 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 240.0GB/s | 120.3GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 28 | |
| Shading Units | 3584 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 112 | 80 |
| ROPs | 48 | 48 |
| Tensor Cores | 112 | |
| RT Cores | 28 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 3 MB | 1536 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 85.30 GPixel/s | 49.82 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 199.0 GTexel/s | 83.04 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 12.74 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 12.74 TFLOPS | 2.657 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 199.0 GFLOPS | 83.04 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GA106 | GM204 |
| GPU Variant | GA106-302-A1 | N16E-GT-A2 |
| Architecture | Ampere | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 12 billion | 5.2 billion |
| Die Size | 276 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 170W | Unknown |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a | Portable Device Dependent |
| 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 | 5.2 |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 6.7 (6.4) |