GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1425 MHz

TDP 80 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

79,483

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,821

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

80,344

passmark_directx_10

N/A

90

passmark_directx_11

N/A

110

passmark_directx_12

N/A

58

passmark_directx_9

N/A

146

passmark_g2d

N/A

588

passmark_g3d

N/A

13,230

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

5,718

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

RTX 3060 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

3,840 +87.5%

Shaders

2,048

3,840 +87.5%

TMUs

128

120 -6.3%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

30

Clocks

Base Clock

—

900 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1425 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

6,144 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

68.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

30

Tensor Cores

—

120

Power

TDP

250 W

80 W

TDP (W)

250

80 -68.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

—

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

GeForce 30 Mobile

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

12,000 million

Die Size

352 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.3M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

—

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 20 Mobile

Successor

Sea Islands

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