GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 4070 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 4070

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GN20-E3 GA106

AD104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

April 2023

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1283 MHz

2475 MHz

Core clock speed

1920 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

35,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

153.8

455.4

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

12 GB/s

21000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

504.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3