NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +619%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

1408

152

TMUs

88

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

25.60 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Cayman

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

389 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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