
GeForce RTX 3070 and GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3070
GeForce RTX 4060 AD106
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Ampere GA104
AD106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2020
April 2024 (recently)
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1725 MHz
2460 MHz
Core clock speed
1500 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
17,400 million
22,900 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
5888
3072
Power consumption (TDP)
220 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
317.4
236.2
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
17 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
448.0 GB/s
272.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.5
8.9
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
Vulkan
1.2
1.3