Radeon HD 5970 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon HD 5970
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hemlock
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2