NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

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

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +397%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea 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

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

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

1280

112

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

212 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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