NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 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 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3904 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +954%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Sep 2011

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

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/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

25.60 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

254W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Barts

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

392 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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