AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (185W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1665MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7870 XT
2.995 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+440%
16.2 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon HD 7870 XT
1773
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+589%
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon HD 7870 XT
352
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+1587%
5941
Graphics Card
Nov 2012
Release Date
Oct 2022
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
925 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
1536
Shading Units
4864
96
TMUs
152
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
93.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
2.995 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
748.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
185W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 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
GA104
Tahiti LE
(215-0821122)
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
392 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
