AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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AMD Radeon HD 6970

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

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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

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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

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