Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
October 2022
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
1665 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,301 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
225 Watt
Texture fill rate
134.4
253.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
19 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
608.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-