Nvidia RTX 4070 vs Nvidia RTX 3060

TOPGPU|09 Feb 2024 7:21 am

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Nvidia RTX 4070

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Nvidia RTX 3060

Nvidia RTX 4070 and Nvidia RTX 3060 are both high-end graphics cards launched by NVIDIA, but there are some key differences between the two. RTX 4070 is more powerful, equipped with the latest Ada Lovelace architecture, and has a larger video memory capacity. It supports ray tracing and DLSS 3 technology, while RTX 3060 uses the previous generation Ampere architecture, has a slightly smaller video memory capacity, and does not support ray tracing and DLSS 3. Overall, RTX 4070 outperforms RTX 3060 in terms of performance and features, but it is also more expensive.

Nvidia RTX 4070

Pros: More powerful, supports ray tracing and DLSS 3, has a larger video memory capacity.

Cons: More expensive, higher power consumption.

Nvidia RTX 3060

Pros: Better price-to-performance ratio, lower power consumption.

Cons: Slightly weaker performance, does not support ray tracing and DLSS 3, slightly smaller video memory capacity.

Graphics core

Release Date	January 3, 2023	February 25, 2021
Generation	4th	2nd
Applicable Type	Desktop	Desktop
Processor Number	5888	3584
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16

Memory

Memory Capacity	12GB	12GB
Memory Type	GDDR6X	GDDR6
Memory Bus Width	192-bit	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	504GB/s	360GB/s

Clock speed

Base Clock Speed	1920MHz	1320MHz
Boost Clock Speed	2475MHz	1777MHz

Render Config

Stream Processors	5888	3584
Texture Units	368	112
Rasterization Units	128	48

Theoretical Performance

FP32 Performance	30.3TFLOPS	12.7TFLOPS
INT32 Performance	15.2TOPS	6.35TOPS

Graphics Processor

Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Manufacturing Process	4nm	8nm

Board Design

Length	242mm	229mm
Width	112mm	112mm
Height	32mm	40mm
Power Connector	1x 16-pin	1x 8-pin
Display Outputs	3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x HDMI 2.1	3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x HDMI 2.1