NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +2761%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

30

SM Count

-

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

12.43 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

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

GA106

GPU Name

RV670

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 XTX (215-0708004)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

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