NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1980 MHz vs 1410 MHz
  • Around 49% higher boost clock speed: 2475 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 554.4 GTexel/s vs 253.1 GTexel/s
  • Around 47% higher pipelines: 7168 vs 4864
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1180 vs 989
  • Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 29969 vs 20394
  • Around 76% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 192400 vs 109075
  • Around 73% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4627 vs 2671
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 Jan 2024 vs 1 Dec 2020
Core clock speed 1980 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Boost clock speed 2475 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Texture fill rate 554.4 GTexel/s vs 253.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines 7168 vs 4864
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1180 vs 989
PassMark - G3D Mark 29969 vs 20394
Geekbench - OpenCL 192400 vs 109075
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4627 vs 2671

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

  • Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 220 Watt
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt vs 220 Watt
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1180
989
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
29969
20394
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
192400
109075
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
4627
2671
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark 1180 989
PassMark - G3D Mark 29969 20394
Geekbench - OpenCL 192400 109075
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4627 2671
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 323.141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4756.579
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 35.311
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 150.943
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1474.189
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 27478
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 27478
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD104 GA104
Launch date 8 Jan 2024 1 Dec 2020
Place in performance rating 23 104
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2475 MHz 1665 MHz
Core clock speed 1980 MHz 1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 7168 4864
Pixel fill rate 198.0 GPixel/s 133.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 554.4 GTexel/s 253.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 220 Watt 200 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 17400 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 253.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 16.20 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 16.20 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Height 42 mm, 1.7 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 242 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin 1x 12-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 112 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 504.2 GB/s 448 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6X GDDR6