GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Max-Q vs RTX 2060 Super

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	89	not rated
Place by popularity	19	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	47.45	no data
Power efficiency	17.06	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	TU106	GA104
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	9 July 2019 (5 years ago)	4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2176	5888
Core clock speed	1470 MHz	510 MHz
Boost clock speed	1650 MHz	1035 MHz
Number of transistors	10,800 million	17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	80 Watt
Texture fill rate	224.4	190.4
Floating-point processing power	7.181 TFLOPS	12.19 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	96
TMUs	136	184
Tensor Cores	272	184
Ray Tracing Cores	34	46

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	229 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	384.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	No outputs
HDMI	+	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

+

no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	7.5	8.6

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	9 July 2019	4 January 2022
Chip lithography	12 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	80 Watt

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