NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 349.99

$ 209.31 significantly less expensive

$ 559.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4831 points

8113 points

67% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS

197 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS

96 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS

140 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

77 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

102 FPS

127 FPS

25 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

272 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Rainbow Six Siege FPS

265 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

54 FPS

76 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Days Gone FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

73 FPS

124 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Days Gone FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7528 points

13651 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1636.29 points

3380.77 points

106% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

78091 points

149734 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

70754 points

135064 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60775 points

99979 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76744 points

128209 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72572 points

121057 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz

1500 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz

1725 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

448 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

37% slightly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

105% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

214% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

5888

206% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

184

53% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 586

53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 3070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 also 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 3070 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 has a slightly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 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 3070 is better than the GeForce RTX 2060.

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