NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2880 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +855%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

960

120

TMUs

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

24.80 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

127W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Barts

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

276 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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