GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon HD 6970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+499%
16200
Radeon HD 6970
2703
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Dec 2010
GeForce 30
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
1536
152
TMUs
96
80
ROPs
32
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Cayman
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
Cayman XT
(215-0807007)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.0