Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

December 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1665 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

1410 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2x1700 Million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1920

4864

Power consumption (TDP)

220 Watt

Texture fill rate

253.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2