AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +531%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2021

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

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1120

Shading Units

3584

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA106

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-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

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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