Radeon HD 7950M and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7950M

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Wimbledon Pro

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

May 2012

January 2021

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

56.00

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2