Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970M vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Radeon HD 7970M
3635
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
21151
Radeon HD 7970M
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Wimbledon XT
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
December 2020
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,176 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
253.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
448.0 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
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2