AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

4928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +1015%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Nov 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

5888

48

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA104

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

220W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

6.6

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