AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP 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

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +510%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Oct 2022

Northern Islands

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

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

3584

72

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

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA104

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

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

Board Design

151W

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 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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