Radeon HD 6970 X2 and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970 X2
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Antilles
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
May 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
880 MHz
1575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
6144
Power consumption (TDP)
375 Watt
290 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
339.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5.5 GB/s
19000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
608.3 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
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)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.2