NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +961%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

800

112

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

150W

450 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

GA106

GPU Name

RV770

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

276 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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