Radeon 9700 PRO X4 and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison
Radeon 9700 PRO X4
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Architecture
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R300
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2002
October 2022
Interface
PCI
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x Molex
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
325 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
110 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
-
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.600
199.0
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
620 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
19.84 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DVI
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0 (9_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
N/A
3.0
OpenGL
2.0
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3