NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3904 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +988%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Feb 2022

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

960

152

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

127W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA103S

GPU Name

Barts

GA103-200-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

496 mm²

Die Size

255 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

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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