Radeon HD 7950 Boost and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2012

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

103.6

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3