NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +819%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +788%

11654

Radeon HD 7850

1312

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

4864

Shading Units

1024

152

TMUs

64

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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