GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GN20-E3 GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2016
January 2021
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
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1283 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
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
60 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
153.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-