NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 699.00
$ 471.69
$ 227.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

41 %
65 %
58% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS
159 FPS
74 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

69 FPS
79 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

53 FPS
115 FPS
62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

55 FPS
62 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6797
11624
71% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

633.86
3064.92
383% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

50088
128321
156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52434
120183
129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59088
95490
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43694
111817
155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58381
104700
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
13% slightly higher core clock speed
1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz
1% slightly higher boost clock speed
1665 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
Identical
8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s
448 GB/s
74% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
11% slightly lower TDP
200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s
133.2 Gigapixels/s
23% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

255.8 Gigatexels/s
1% slightly higher texture rate
253.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.19 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
97% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2432
4864
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152
Identical
152

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
80
25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

62nd of 549
27th of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

November 2017
December 2020

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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

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