GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GF100
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2010
September 2021
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pins
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
607 MHz
-
CUDA cores
448
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
170 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
34.0 billion/sec
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1280 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3