GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GTX 470
3199
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GF100
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2010
January 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
1320 MHz
CUDA cores
448
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
13,250 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)
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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
2.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2