GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 970M

GeForce RTX 3060
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3060

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 3060

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060GeForce GTX 970M
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-300-A1)vsGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)
Fab Process8 nmvs28 nm
Die Size300 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders3840vs1280
Compute Units30vs10
Core clock1627 MHzvs1038 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs120vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060GeForce GTX 970M
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3060GeForce GTX 970M
TDP180 wattsvs0 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs7 Oct 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    118.50 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    222.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    14220.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better