Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
+368%
12740
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Sep 2021
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
28
1600
Shading Units
3584
80
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
170W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GA104
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.0
Shader Model
6.6