ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 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 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock1852MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

3040 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +1085%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Jan 2021

Radeon R700

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

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

3840

40

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GA106

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

12 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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