NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 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

$ 366.59

$ 192.71 significantly less expensive

$ 559.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

8113 points

19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

197 FPS

30 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

96 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

140 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

77 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

57 FPS

60 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher ELDEN RING FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

87 FPS

127 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

249 FPS

265 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

76 FPS

Identical

76 FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Low settings at 1080p

119 FPS

126 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Valorant FPS

Low settings at 1080p

261 FPS

269 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Valorant FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

13651 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

3380.77 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

128321 points

149734 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120183 points

135064 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

95490 points

99979 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

128209 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

121057 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

1500 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

1725 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s

Identical

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

10% slightly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

25% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

25% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

5888

21% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

184

21% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

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 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3070 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in our tests.

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 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 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 RTX 3060 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 200 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.

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