AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Oct 2022
Generation
Solar System
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1665 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
608.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
4864
TMUs
80
152
ROPs
32
80
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
38
Tensor Cores
—
152
RT Cores
—
38
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
133.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
16.20 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GA104
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
GA104-202-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
225W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
—
8.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
12,223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
5,941
3DMark Speed Way
—
3,097
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.