Radeon HD 6930 and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6930

GeForce RTX 3070

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Cayman

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2011

September 2020

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1725 MHz

Core clock speed

750 MHz

1500 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,920.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

186 Watt

220 Watt

Texture fill rate

60.00

317.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

+

+

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.5

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2