AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +371%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

3584

96

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA106

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

12 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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