AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1777MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +325%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Nov 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

925 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1536

Shading Units

3584

96

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

170W

450 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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA106

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12 billion

352 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

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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