ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +961%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Oct 2022

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GA104

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GA104

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

195W

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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