Radeon HD 2900 XTX and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER - video card comparison

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R600

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1695 MHz

Core clock speed

743 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

720 million

18,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

240 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

11.89

325.4

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1656 MBps

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

106.0 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.0-

Vulkan

N/A