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GPU Comparison
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
AMD Radeon HD 7970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
+236%
12.74 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970
3.789 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
VS
Radeon HD 7970
Graphics Card
Sep 2021
Release Date
Dec 2011
GeForce 30
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
28
SM Count
-
-
Compute Units
32
3584
Shading Units
2048
112
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
113.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA104-150-KC-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT (215-0821060)
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
Board Design
170W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 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 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
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