GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 470

GeForce RTX 3060
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GTX 470
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 470

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 470

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 470
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-300-A1)vsGF100 (GF100-275-A3)
Fab Process8 nmvs40 nm
Die Size300 mm²vs529 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs3,100 million
Shaders3840vs448
Compute Units30vs14
Core clock1627 MHzvs608 MHz
ROPs64vs40
TMUs120vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060GeForce GTX 470
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs320 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs837 MHz
3348 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs1280 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3060GeForce GTX 470
TDP180 wattsvs215 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs26 Mar 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    118.50 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 470
    17.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    222.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 470
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 470
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    14220.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 470
    1089.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better