AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2720 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +605%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

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

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1120

Shading Units

3840

56

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

185W

700 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

-

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA106

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-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

6.7

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