Radeon HD 6950M and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6950M

GeForce RTX 3070

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Blackcomb Pro

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

September 2020

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1725 MHz

Core clock speed

580 MHz

1500 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,113.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

220 Watt

Texture fill rate

27.84

317.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.5

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2