NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +936%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 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)

1229 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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