Radeon HD 3850 X3 and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER - video card comparison

Radeon HD 3850 X3

GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RV670

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1695 MHz

Core clock speed

669 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

666 million

18,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

145 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.70

325.4

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1700 MBps

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

54.4 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.1-

Vulkan

N/A