NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 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 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +422%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Evergreen

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

1195 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

1600

120

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

228W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Cypress

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

276 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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