Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Broadway

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

2023

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

800 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,280.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,040 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

195 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.00

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

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

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3