AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +707%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1024

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GA106

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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