AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (85W vs 170W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
1.229 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+936%
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 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
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
28
768
Shading Units
3584
48
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
25.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
1229 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
307.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
85W
TDP
170W
250 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 + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA106
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
GA106-302-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
-
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
