NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 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 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

5184 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (254W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 +1316%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

960

192

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

254W

600 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

GA102

GPU Name

Barts

GA102-150-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

628 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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