AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 76% (1852MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +230%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA106

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

185W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x 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

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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