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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070
Comparison of the technical characteristics between the graphics cards, with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 on one side and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 on the other side. The first is dedicated to the desktop sector, it has 3584 shading units, a maximum frequency of 1.8 GHz, its lithography is 8 nm. The second is used on the desktop segment, it includes 7168 shading units, a maximum frequency of 2.6 GHz, its lithography is 4 nm. The following table also compares the boost clock, the number of shading units (if indicated), of execution units, the amount of cache memory, the maximum memory capacity, the memory bus width, the release date, the number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in various benchmarks.
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Specification comparison:
| Graphics card | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 | ||||||
| Market (main) | Desktop | Desktop | ||||||
| Release date | Q1 2021 | Q1 2023 | ||||||
| Model number | GA106-300-A1 | AD104 | ||||||
| GPU name | GA106 | AD104 | ||||||
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace | ||||||
| Generation | GeForce 30 | GeForce 40 | ||||||
| Lithography | 8 nm | 4 nm | ||||||
| Transistors | 13,250,000,000 | 35,800,000,000 | ||||||
| Bus interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | ||||||
| GPU base clock | 1,320 MHz | 2,310 MHz | ||||||
| GPU boost clock | 1,777 MHz | 2,610 MHz | ||||||
| Memory frequency | 1,875 MHz | 1,313 MHz | ||||||
| Effective memory speed | 15 Gbps | 21 Gbps | ||||||
| Memory size | 12 GB | 10 GB | ||||||
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X | ||||||
| Memory bus | 192 bit | 160 bit | ||||||
| Memory bandwidth | 360.0 GB/s | 420.2 GB/s | ||||||
| TDP | 170 W | 285 W | ||||||
| Suggested PSU | 550W ATX Power Supply  | 650W ATX Power Supply | ||||||
| Multicard technology | - | - | ||||||
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
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| Max display resolution | 7680 x 4320@60Hz (DP), 3840 x 2160@240Hz (DP), 7680 x 4320@120Hz (2x DP), 7680 x 4320@60Hz (HDMI) |
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| Cores (compute units, SM, SMX) | 28 | 56 | ||||||
| Shading units (cuda cores) | 3,584 | 7,168 | ||||||
| TMUs | 112 | 224 | ||||||
| ROPs | 64 | 80 | ||||||
| Tensor cores | 112 | 224 | ||||||
| RT cores | 28 | 56 | ||||||
| Cache memory | 3 MB | 40 MB | ||||||
| Pixel fillrate | 113.7 GP/s | 208.8 GP/s | ||||||
| Texture fillrate | 199.0 GT/s | 584.6 GT/s | ||||||
| Performance FP16 (half) | 12.7 TFLOPS | 37.4 TFLOPS | ||||||
| Performance FP32 (float) | 12.7 TFLOPS | 37.4 TFLOPS | ||||||
| Performance FP64 (double) | 199 GFLOPS | 584.6 GFLOPS | ||||||
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Performance comparison with the benchmarks:
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench 4.
| FP32 Performance in GFLOPS | |
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| Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 |
37,420 |
| Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 |
12,740 |
The difference is 194%.
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average of the performances got with these graphics cards, you may get different results.
average of the performances got with these graphics cards, you may get different results.
Single precision floating point format, also known as FP32, is a computer number format that typically occupies 32 bits in PC memory. This represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values that employs a floating point.
See also:
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Max-QNvidia GeForce RTX 3060 MobileNvidia GeForce RTX 3060 TiNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Max-QNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 MobileNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
Equivalence:
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 AMD equivalentNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 AMD equivalentDisclaimer:
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