NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2021
Jan 2013
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
1600
TMUs
112
80
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
-
20

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA106
Cypress
GPU Variant
GA106-300-A1
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture
Ampere
TeraScale 2
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
40 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
334 mm²

Board Design

TDP
170W
175W
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
8,747
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,097
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3DMark Speed Way
2,181
-
Battlefield 5 1080p
142
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
44
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Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
30
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
80
-
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
36
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
116
-
Battlefield 5 2160p
55
-
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
56
-
Battlefield 5 1440p
101
-
GTA 5 2160p
50
-
GTA 5 1440p
82
-
GTA 5 1080p
133
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