NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2022
Mar 2012
Generation
GeForce 30
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1200 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
153.6GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
1024
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
16

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
27.52 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
55.04 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
1.761 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA104
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
GA104
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
212 mm²

Board Design

TDP
195W
130W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.7
5.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
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1,334
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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325