AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jan 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
817 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1282 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
3840
TMUs
96
120
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
30
Tensor Cores
-
120
RT Cores
-
30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.846 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA106
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
-
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
250W
60W
Suggested PSU
600 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
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