AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jan 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1875 MHz
Base Clock
—
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1777 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
—
Shading Units
1408
3584
TMUs
88
112
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
SM Count
—
28
Tensor Cores
—
112
RT Cores
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA106
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
GA106-300-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
12 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
170W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
CUDA
—
8.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
8,747
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
4,097
3DMark Speed Way
—
2,181
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
142
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
44
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
80
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
—
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
116
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
55
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
—
56
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
101
GTA 5 2160p
—
50
GTA 5 1440p
—
82
GTA 5 1080p
—
133
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.