ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

4544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +3303%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Feb 2022

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

320

Shading Units

4864

16

TMUs

152

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GA103S

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

Unknown

420 mm²

Die Size

496 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

6.5

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