Radeon HD 8970 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2013
December 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 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
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
253.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x 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
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2