AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +327%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

2048

Shading Units

4864

128

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GA104-202-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

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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