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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

3464 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +6535%

12.74 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2007

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

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

120

112

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

RV630

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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