Radeon HD 2950 XTX and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - video card comparison

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RV670

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

777 MHz

1575 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

666 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

110 Watt

290 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.43

339.8

Memory type

GDDR4

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.3 GB/s

19000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72.06 GB/s

608.3 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.16.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2