NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Jan 2012
Generation
GeForce 30
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
2048
TMUs
112
128
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GA104
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
2,310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,209