NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 366.59

$ 175.36 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

12174 points

78% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

289 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

141 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

206 FPS

89 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

114 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

87 FPS

108 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

202% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

5402.96 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

168368 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

158623 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

2190 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

2430 MHz

45% significantly 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

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

49% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

45% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

115% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

115% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

7168

47% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

224

47% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 597

31st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

2023 April

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 4070 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4070 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 RTX 3060 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 200 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.