NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3464 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +7483%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

0.168 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

3584

Shading Units

120

112

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

168.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

RV630

GA104

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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