NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +598%

16.2 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

1600

152

TMUs

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

294W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Hemlock

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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