NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +495%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Jan 2013

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

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

1600

152

TMUs

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

27.20 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Cypress

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

334 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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