AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +236%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Sep 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

170W

900 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 Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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