NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and AMD Radeon HD 7970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
- Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 9 month(s) later
- Around 80% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 925 MHz
- 2137.7x more texture fill rate: 253.1 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
- 2.4x more pipelines: 4864 vs 2048
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
- Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 300 Watt
- 2.7x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 3 GB
- Around 23% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2793 vs 2276
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 19 Oct 2022 vs 22 December 2011 |
| Boost clock speed | 1665 MHz vs 925 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 253.1 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s |
| Pipelines | 4864 vs 2048 |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm vs 28 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 225 Watt vs 300 Watt |
| Maximum memory size | 8 GB vs 3 GB |
| Benchmarks | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 2793 vs 2276 |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970
- Around 16% higher memory clock speed: 1375 MHz vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
| Memory clock speed | 1375 MHz vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score |
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X | AMD Radeon HD 7970 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 2793 | 2276 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 34541 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 84.413 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1390.592 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 7.336 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 101.929 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 481.76 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 9448 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3704 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3350 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 9448 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3704 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3350 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X | AMD Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|---|---|
Essentials |
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| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 1.0 |
| Code name | GA104 | Tahiti |
| Launch date | 19 Oct 2022 | 22 December 2011 |
| Place in performance rating | 480 | 478 |
| Design | AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $549 | |
| Type | Desktop | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1665 MHz | 925 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 1410 MHz | |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | 28 nm |
| Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance | 253.1 GFLOPS (1:64) | |
| Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance | 16.20 TFLOPS (1:1) | |
| Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance | 16.20 TFLOPS | |
| Pipelines | 4864 | 2048 |
| Pixel fill rate | 133.2 GPixel/s | |
| Texture fill rate | 253.1 GTexel/s | 118.4 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 225 Watt | 300 Watt |
| Transistor count | 17400 million | 4,313 million |
| Floating-point performance | 3,789 gflops | |
| Stream Processors | 2048 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort |
| DisplayPort support | ||
| Dual-link DVI support | ||
| Eyefinity | ||
| HDMI | ||
| VGA | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Form factor | Dual-slot | |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Length | 242 mm, 9.5 inches | 274 mm |
| Recommended system power (PSU) | 550 Watt | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 12-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Width | 112 mm, 4.4 inches | |
| Bus support | PCIe 2.1 x16 | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 11 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| Vulkan | ||
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | 3 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 608.3 GB/s | 264 GB/s |
| Memory bus width | 256 bit | 384 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective | 1375 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR6X | GDDR5 |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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| AMD Eyefinity | ||
| CrossFire | ||
| FreeSync | ||
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