AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2012
Jan 2021
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
925 MHz
1627 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1852 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
3840
TMUs
96
120
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
30
Tensor Cores
-
120
RT Cores
-
30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
88.90 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
93.60 GTexel/s
222.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.995 TFLOPS
14.22 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
748.8 GFLOPS
222.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.22 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA106
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
GA106-400-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
12 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
185W
185W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
-
8.6