NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1665MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +388%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

1792

152

TMUs

112

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

352 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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