AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +729%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

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

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

3584

48

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

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA106

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

254W

TDP

170W

600 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 8-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

6.6

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