NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +465%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Cayman

GA104

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

389 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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