AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Dec 2020
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1665 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
4864
TMUs
96
152
ROPs
32
80
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
38
Tensor Cores
-
152
RT Cores
-
38
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
133.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA104
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
GA104-200-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
200W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 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
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
11,709
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
5,710
3DMark Speed Way
-
2,965
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
166
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
49
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
-
41
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
93
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
-
48
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
129
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
68
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
-
72
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
122
GTA 5 2160p
-
61
GTA 5 1440p
-
99
GTA 5 1080p
-
149