Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Wimbledon XT

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

May 2012

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

11.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2