NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 969.08 significantly less expensive

$ 1253.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

749% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

376% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1841 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

1157% significantly higher Blender score

184.30 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

728% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11969 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

552% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14780 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

421% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14358 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

484% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15314 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

429% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16269 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

81% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

360 GB/s

87% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

Identical

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

210% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

383% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

166% significantly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

Identical

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

308th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 670 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 670 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 also has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, both the GeForce RTX 3060 and the GeForce GTX 670 have an identical TDP. 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 670.