NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+327%
16.2 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
3.789 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 30
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
2048
152
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
250W
550 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
GA104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA104-202-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
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
