ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +449%

12.74 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Sep 2021

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1600

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GA104

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

334 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

6.6

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