NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 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)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +368%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Evergreen

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

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

228W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Cypress

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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