ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (188W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +368%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1600

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

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

113.7 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

188W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA104

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GA104

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.7

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