NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 46.59 slightly less expensive

$ 366.59

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

6815 points

87% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

167 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

80 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

118 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

63 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

65 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher ELDEN RING FPS

57 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

68 FPS

87 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

52 FPS

138 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

11700 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

3000.82 points

436% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

128321 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

120183 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

95490 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

112303 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

115945 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

6% 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

150 W

33% 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

202 Gigatexels/s

253.1 Gigatexels/s

25% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

150% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

4864

153% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

152

26% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

71st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2020 December

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 Ti comparison

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 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 also 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 GTX 1070 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 1070.