NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +2463%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

RV670

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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