NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Oct 2010
Generation
GeForce 30
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
1120
TMUs
112
56
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
-
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Barts
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture
Ampere
TeraScale 2
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
40 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
151W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.6
5.0
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
8,935
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,231
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