AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 92% (1777MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +284%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

925 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

-

SM Count

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

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

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

200W

TDP

170W

550 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 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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