AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2011
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
1250 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
160.0GB/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
26.56 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
79.68 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.550 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
637.4 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.846 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Antilles
GA106
GPU Variant
Antilles XT(215-0807027)
-
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
375W
60W
Suggested PSU
750 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 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