NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +1250%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

800

152

TMUs

40

80

ROPs

16

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

RV770

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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