NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +2887%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

3840

Shading Units

320

120

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

R600

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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