Radeon HD 7950 Boost and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
GeForce RTX 3070
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
September 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1725 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1500 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
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
103.6
317.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240.0 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.5
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2