NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 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 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +531%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1120

112

TMUs

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Barts

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

255 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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