NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Price

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$ 1159.00

$ 754.99

$ 404.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

41 %

51 %

24% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

84 FPS

124 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

69 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

60 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

53 FPS

86 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

55 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

47 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6797

8714

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

633.86

2445.24

285% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

50088

99213

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52434

96416

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59088

74845

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44885

89260

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58447

85064

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1320 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

1777 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

360 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

170 W

5% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

85.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

255.8 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

199 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.19 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

55% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2432

3584

47% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

35% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

58th of 360

42nd of 360

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

November 2017

January 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti at 180 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.