ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +3217%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Sep 2021

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

320

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GA104

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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