NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

ATI Radeon HD 3470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

3544 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +19806%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

40

112

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

RV620

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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