AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Jan 2021
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
3584
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
28
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA106
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
GA106-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
12 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
170W
Suggested PSU
700 W
450 W
Outputs
1x 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
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