ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +2463%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2021

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

320

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

170W

300 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

RV670

GPU Name

GA104

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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

6.6

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