NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

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

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Price

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$ 284.17
$ 345.82 significantly less expensive
$ 629.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
14371 points
172% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
336 FPS
210 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
169 FPS
108 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
245 FPS
157 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
137 FPS
89 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
89% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4636 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
6144.78 points
165% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
192880 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
181592 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
1980 MHz
49% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
2475 MHz
39% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
Identical
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
504.2 GB/s
40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
29% slightly lower TDP
220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
198 Gigapixels/s
132% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
554.4 Gigatexels/s
178% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
7168
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
224
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
80
66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
21st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2024 January

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 4070 SUPER specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

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

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