Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2x1700 Million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1920

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

142.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

1.3