AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6970
2.703 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
+499%
16.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2010
Release Date
Feb 2022
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
1536
Shading Units
4864
96
TMUs
152
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
28.16 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
200W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 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 Processor
Cayman
GPU Name
GA103S
Cayman XT
(215-0807007)
GPU Variant
GA103-200-A1
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
Unknown
389 mm²
Die Size
496 mm²
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
6.5
