AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 '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 GA104 +936%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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

64

-

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

113.7 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

195W

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

GA104

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GA104

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

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