Radeon R9 370X and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 370X

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Trinidad

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2015

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1030 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

980 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,637 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

82.40

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5600 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x 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