GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 10 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1665MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+276%
16200
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
4301
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 30
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
2048
152
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x 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
Tahiti
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2
(215-0821065)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
