NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2024
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 40
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1920 MHz
817 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1282 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
46
30
Shading Units
5888
3840
TMUs
184
120
ROPs
64
48
Tensor Cores
184
120
RT Cores
46
30
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
36 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD104
GA106
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
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Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
5 nm
8 nm
Transistors
35.8 billion
12 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
60W
Suggested PSU
550 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.9
8.6
Shader Model
6.8
6.6