AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

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 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +371%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 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

64

-

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

113.7 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

GA104

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

170W

750 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

3x 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

6.7

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