NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +968%

10.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

640

120

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Heathrow

-

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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