NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

35 %

51 %

45% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

69 FPS

123 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

60 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

44 FPS

86 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

46 FPS

47 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6046

8714

44% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

566.05

2445.24

331% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558

99213

117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750

96416

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125

74845

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40762

89470

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51403

84353

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

14% 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

150 W

13% slightly lower TDP

170 W

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

202 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

199 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

97% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

3584

86% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

7% 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

73rd of 549

41st of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

June 2016

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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 3060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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