NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +368%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

Evergreen

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

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

188W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Cypress

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

276 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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