NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP104 GA106
GPU variant GP104-200-A1 GA106-300-A1
Architecture Pascal Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Manufacturing process 16 nm 8 nm
Number of transistors 7,200 million 13,250 million
Die size 314 mm² 276 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 10th, 2016 Jan 12th, 2021
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 30
Predecessor GeForce 900 GeForce 20
Successor GeForce 20
Production End-of-life Active
Launch price 379 USD 329 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Reviews 125 in our database 60 in our database
gpu.details.availability Feb 25th, 2021

Clocks

Base clock 1506 MHz 1320 MHz
Boost clock 1683 MHz 1777 MHz
Memory clock 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective 1875 MHz 15 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 12 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 256.3 GB/s 360.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1920 3584
TMUs 120 112
ROPs 64 48
SM count 15 28
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 2 MB 3 MB
Tensor cores 112
RT cores 28

Performance

Pixel rate 107.7 GPixel/s 85.30 GPixel/s
Texture rate 202.0 GTexel/s 199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 101.0 GFLOPS (1:64) 12.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 6.463 TFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 202.0 GFLOPS (1:32) 199.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 242 mm 9.5 inches
Width 112 mm 4.4 inches 112 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 150 W 170 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 12-pin
Board number PG411 SKU 20 PG190 SKU 60

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
CUDA 6.1 8.6
Shader model 6.4 6.6

Other Features

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