Radeon HD 6990 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 7 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6990
2550
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+535%
16200
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Oct 2022
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
1536
Shading Units
4864
96
TMUs
152
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
26.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
79.68 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
2.550 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
637.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
375W
TDP
225W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Antilles
GPU Name
GA104
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.0
Shader Model
6.7