ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
3264 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2.32 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
+598%
16.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Feb 2022
Evergreen
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
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
1600
Shading Units
4864
80
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
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
200W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 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
GA103S
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
GA103-200-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
Unknown
334 mm²
Die Size
496 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
6.5
