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

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX 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

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +2576%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

106.0GB/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)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

240W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GA104

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

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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