GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP104

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

December 2018

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1683 MHz

1702 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

817 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1920

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

202.0

171.0

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.3 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2