ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +3222%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2008

Release Date

Jan 2021

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

3840

16

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

85.63 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GA106

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

12 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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