AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Sep 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 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
176.0GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
—
Shading Units
1536
3584
TMUs
96
112
ROPs
32
64
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
28.16 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA104
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
GA104-150-KC-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
170W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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
6.7
CUDA
—
8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.