AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Oct 2022
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1188 MHz
Base Clock
-
1575 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1770 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
608.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
6144
TMUs
96
192
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
48
Tensor Cores
-
192
RT Cores
-
48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
169.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
339.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
21.75 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
339.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
21.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA102
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
GA102-150-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
290W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 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
6.6
CUDA
-
8.6