ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

4544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +3159%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2022

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/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

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GA104

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GA104-202-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

6.7

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