GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Pascal GP104

GA103S

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2017

February 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1683 MHz

1665 MHz

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

Floating-point performance

8,186 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2432

4864

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

255.8

253.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

256.3 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

VR Ready