NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost 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 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 100% (1852MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +328%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

1792

120

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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