GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs 2070 SUPER
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We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with 38 pipelines and 4864 shaders against the 1 year and 5 months older RTX 2070 SUPER that utilizes 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
- Performs better (up to 19%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 78% higher maximum theoretical performance (16.2 vs 9.1 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
- Shows 17% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 77 vs 66 FPS
- Has 90% more shading units (4864 vs 2560)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
- Features 168 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 132 88 75 54 |
123 74 65 44 |
| The Witcher 3 | 152 128 92 47 |
136 113 79 43 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 226 169 121 64 |
202 146 107 56 |
| Far Cry 6 | 114 103 83 47 |
103 91 73 40 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 86 73 55 29 |
74 61 46 25 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 107 99 72 47 |
93 86 59 41 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 82 69 48 28 |
73 58 41 26 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 92 81 48 22 |
82 72 43 22 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 139 132 95 53 |
121 114 80 41 |
| 1080p High | 126 | 112 |
| 1080p Ultra | 105 | 91 |
| 1440p Ultra | 77 | 66 |
| 4K Ultra | 43 | 38 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 11707 | 10166 |
| Solar Bay | 54429 | 45863 |
| Port Royal | 6971 | 6032 |
| Fire Strike | 29571 | 25679 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 24417 | 20744 |
| Night Raid | 109862 | 102662 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 185.1 img/sec | 166.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 108.4 img/sec | 103.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.35 Gpixels/sec | 4.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 7.17 Gpixels/sec | 5.56 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.54 Gpixels/sec | 5.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.15 Gpixels/sec | 1.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 478 Gpixels/sec | 489.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 15183 FPS | 13242.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 989 | 878 |
| DirectX 11 | 164 FPS | 154 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 78 FPS | 67 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9865 Ops/s | 7441 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 7384 | 6648 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 19320 | 16442 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 16108 | 15383 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 34615 | 32861 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 74811 | 66348 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2638 | 2166 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4136 | 4239 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8718 | 8194 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 25946 | 26192 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 153275 | 137642 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 2070 SUPERGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | December 2, 2020 | July 9, 2019 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $399 | $499 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Ampere | Turing |
| GPU Codename | GA104 | TU104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon RX 6700 XT | - |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above | - Intel Core i7 9700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (49th and 57th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1410 MHz | 1605 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1665 MHz | 1770 MHz |
| Shading Units | 4864 | 2560 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 152 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 80 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 38 | 40 |
| Tensor Cores | 152 | 320 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 38 | 40 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 133 GPixel/s | 113 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 253 GTexel/s | 283 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 200 W | 215 W |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 392 mm² | 545 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 17 billion | 13 billion |
| Transistor Density | 43.37 MTr/mm² | 23.85 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 14000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 7.5 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 2 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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