NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 599.99
$ 37.00 slightly less expensive
$ 636.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %
85 %
66% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

123 FPS
202 FPS
78 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

60 FPS
103 FPS
43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS
148 FPS
61 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
81 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8714
14832
70% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2445.24
3865.61
58% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213
165866
67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416
147200
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845
104828
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89470
138764
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84353
124336
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
1575 MHz
19% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
0.40% slightly higher boost clock speed
1770 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
49% significantly more memory
8 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
608.3 GB/s
68% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
70% significantly lower TDP
290 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
169.9 Gigapixels/s
99% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
339.8 Gigatexels/s
70% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
21.75 TFLOPS
70% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
6144
71% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
192
71% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
96
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 549
18th of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021
May 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti benchmarks

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

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 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 the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 290 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 Ti is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060.

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