Radeon HD 7970 X2 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970 X2

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

New Zealand

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2012

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

3x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

500 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5500 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

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