AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Jan 2021
Generation
Sea Islands
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
817 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1282 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
3840
TMUs
128
120
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
30
Tensor Cores
-
120
RT Cores
-
30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.846 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA106
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
-
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
250W
60W
Suggested PSU
600 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
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