NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GA104 GA104
GPU variant GA104-150-A1 GA104-300-A1
Architecture Ampere Ampere
Foundry Samsung Samsung
Manufacturing process 8 nm 8 nm
Number of transistors 17,400 million 17,400 million
Die size 392 mm² 392 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 1st, 2021 Sep 1st, 2020
Generation GeForce 30 GeForce 30
Predecessor GeForce 20 GeForce 20
Production Active Active
Launch price 329 USD 499 USD
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Reviews 60 in our database 78 in our database
gpu.details.availability Oct 29th, 2020

Clocks

Base clock 1320 MHz 1500 MHz
Boost clock 1777 MHz 1725 MHz
Memory clock 1875 MHz 15 Gbps effective 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 12 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 360.0 GB/s 448.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 3584 5888
TMUs 112 184
ROPs 48 96
SM count 28 46
Tensor cores 112 184
RT cores 28 46
Cache L1 128 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 3 MB 4 MB

Performance

Pixel rate 85.30 GPixel/s 165.6 GPixel/s
Texture rate 199.0 GTexel/s 317.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 12.74 TFLOPS (1:1) 20.31 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 12.74 TFLOPS 20.31 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 199.0 GFLOPS (1:64) 317.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 242 mm 9.5 inches 242 mm 9.5 inches
Width 112 mm 4.4 inches 112 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 170 W 220 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 550 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 12-pin
Board number PG142 SKU 10

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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