NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +275%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

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 Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

276 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

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