ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +368%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jan 2021

Evergreen

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

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1600

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA106

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

12 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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