NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +514%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

1536

184

TMUs

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

135.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

259.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

16.60 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.60 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

259.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

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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