NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3744 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +703%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

4864

Shading Units

1120

152

TMUs

56

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Barts

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

151W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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