GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 vs RTX 3060 8 GB

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	106	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	16.35	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GA106	GA102
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	12 October 2022 (2 years ago)	21 October 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3584	6144
Core clock speed	1320 MHz	1575 MHz
Boost clock speed	1777 MHz	1770 MHz
Number of transistors	12,000 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	170 Watt	290 Watt
Texture fill rate	199.0	339.8
Floating-point processing power	12.74 TFLOPS	21.75 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	96
TMUs	112	192
Tensor Cores	112	192
Ray Tracing Cores	28	48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	242 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1875 MHz	1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB/s	608.3 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
CUDA	8.6	8.6

Pros & cons summary

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Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

290 Watt

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