NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +729%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

960

112

TMUs

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

25.60 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

254W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Barts

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

255 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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