GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
2023
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
195 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-