NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

ATI Radeon HD 4850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1174%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850

1 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 4850

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R700

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

993 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

63.55GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

800

112

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

110W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

RV770

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 PRO (215-0669065)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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