NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Jan 2023
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 40 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1230 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
36
Shading Units
3584
4608
TMUs
112
144
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
112
144
RT Cores
28
36
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
59.04 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
177.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
11.34 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
11.34 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
177.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
AD106
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
GN21-X6
Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
22.9 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
188 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
35W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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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 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
8.9
Shader Model
6.6
6.8
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
8,935
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,231
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