AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 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 200W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
1.229 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103
+1218%
16.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
Feb 2022
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
768
Shading Units
4864
48
TMUs
152
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
25.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
1229 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
307.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
85W
TDP
200W
250 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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA103S
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
GA103-200-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
Unknown
352 mm²
Die Size
496 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
6.5
