NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 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 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +2312%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

R680

GA104

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

392 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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