Radeon HD 6950 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Cayman
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
September 2021
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
1777 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
360.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-