Radeon HD 6950M and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950M
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Blackcomb Pro
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
January 2021
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
580 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,113.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
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