Radeon 9700 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 9700 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon 9700
55
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon 9700
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R300
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2002
January 2021
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Floppy
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
275 MHz
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
110 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
37 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.200
199.0
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
540 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
17.28 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0 (9_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.0
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2