Radeon HD 6970 X2 and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970 X2
GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Antilles
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1695 MHz
Core clock speed
880 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
18,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
6144
Power consumption (TDP)
375 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
325.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5.5 GB/s
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
-