AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2012
Jan 2021
Generation
London
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 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
153.6GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
3584
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 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
27.20 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Wimbledon
GA106
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
GA106-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
12 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
170W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
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.