GeForce RTX 5070 vs RTX 3060

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking84not rated
Place by popularity5not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation69.93no data
Power efficiency17.94no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameGA106GB205
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 January 2021 (4 years ago)February 2025 (recently)
Launch price (MSRP)$329 $549

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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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 cores35846144
Core clock speed1320 MHz2165 MHz
Boost clock speed1777 MHz2510 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million31,000 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate199.0481.9
Floating-point processing power12.74 TFLOPS30.84 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs112192
Tensor Cores112192
Ray Tracing Cores2848

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin1x 16-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 typeGDDR6GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount12 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1875 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth360.0 GB/s672.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1a
HDMI++

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.4
CUDA8.610.1
DLSS++

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 170 Watt 250 Watt

RTX 3060 has 47.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 5070, on the other hand, has a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 5070. We've got no test results to judge.

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