nvidia
Brand8GB GDDR6
Memory4864
Cores448 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory2048
Cores288 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
$399 • Nov 2020
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
$499 • Jun 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 3 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 200 W | 300 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1665 MHz | 1050 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 288 GB/s |
| Process Size | 8nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 1.0 |
| Shading Units | 4864 | 2048 |
| RT Cores | 38 | N/A |
| TMUs | 152 | 128 |
| ROPs | 80 | 32 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 133.2 GPixel/s | 33.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 448 GTexel/s | 288 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 16.2 GFLOPS | 4.301 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 4.00 MB | 0.75 MB |
| Die Size | 392 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 17400 Million | 4313 Million |
| Required PSU | 550 W | 700 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12.2 | 11.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
NVIDIA • 8GB GDDR6
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
AMD • 3GB GDDR5
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