NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 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

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +510%

12.74 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Evergreen

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

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1440

112

TMUs

72

48

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

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

302W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Hemlock

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

334 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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