NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 Ti 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +327%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +411%

11654

Radeon HD 7970

2279

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

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

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA104-200-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

200W

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 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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