GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon HD 7970 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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 2 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+327%
16200
Radeon HD 7970 X2
3789
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Aug 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
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/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
29.60 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
500W
550 W
Suggested PSU
900 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
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
New Zealand
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
-
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