AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1665MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +388%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 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

1410 MHz

925 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

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

1792

Shading Units

4864

112

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

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

200W

550 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

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

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